It seems as if we might have a snow day today. Classes have already been cancelled at Coastal Carolina and at USC-Columbia. We will have to wait for the sun to rise and the temperature to drop to see if we will also find classes canceled.
There is an excitement that comes with a snow day. "What will I do?" "How will I spend the time?" It is as if none of the thinks which had been a concern concern us. We may still have that large paper to write - but "It is a snow day - we don't have to work on that today!" We still have duties and obligations - but "It is a snow day - everyone understands that we don't have to attend to such matters on a day like this!"
When God created the Sabbath, His hope was that we would look upon it in much the same way we now look upon a snow day. God hoped that we would allow all the concerns and all the deadlines to fall to the wayside - that we would just go outside and play in the snow! God hoped that we would remember and realize that not all things are under our control and that rather than being frightened by that we would toss up our hands and say "It is Sabbath - I will leave such matters up to God."
I hope we do get a snow day. And I hope you make the most of it. (But be careful - very careful.) And I hope the experience will remind you that God gives you a snow day once a week. When the next one approaches - remember the giddy feeling in your stomach this morning and see if some of that giddiness might be possible then.
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