So. 2007 is here, in all its white and chill glory. Somehow, I can't come up with a whole lot to say about it.
I read Job 3 this morning, and Job is busy cursing the day of his birth. I can't quite figure it out. He speaks as though if he could keep the day from taking its place in the calendar, as if his curse could actually do something. He's got to have a different view of time. I mean, usually we think of a day being done and then it's--well, entered in the calendar, forever. You may object to your own birth, but there's not a lot to do about it; the day exists, or is in a state of having existed, depending on your metaphysics, and that's that.
Anyhow, despite snow and time--a great deal of both--we safely got home from Grandma's, and boy are we grateful for it.
I wonder what this year brings?
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Isn't it fun to flip through the empty pages of a new calendar and wonder?
Happy New Year! My New Year's Eve was made ever so much more fun by talking to you.
We got snow New Year's Eve, and as it was drifting toward earth (like a huge down-pillow being shaken in the sky), I thought about you and your lovely snow pictures from earlier this year! :-)
Hmm...what does the year bring?
We shall see. :)
"She is not afraid of the snow, for all her household is clothed in scarlet."
"She smiles at the future."
The Proverbs 31 woman strikes again! :-)
It was good to talk to you too, Thacia?
Oh, how delightful, Duchess! I love snow; I missed seeing it fall here, being at Grandma's, but now it's at that delightful stage where the roads are clear but the fields still covered, and the full moon lights up mountain and sky like something out of a story...
We shall see. And in the meantime--we will smile at the future.
Job also believed that language matters in the world -- otherwise, why curse something at all? (It may be pure bitterness, but if so it's a quite different kind of bitterness than I've heard in cursing that wasn't expected to be in any way effectual.) See also the Psalms.
But then again, they believed in blessing as well.
So may you have a most blessed New Year. And Happy Epiphany. "The light shines in the darkness." :-)
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