The Really Big 200th Post!!!

As I logged into my blogger account just now wondering what I might blog about today I noticed that this is, indeed, my 200th post!

This is not as big an accomplishment as you might imagine, given that I started this blog during my junior year in college. I have since graduated from college and completed a three year masters degree, and worked for the better part of a year in a parish already.

Nevertheless, this is the big 200th post, a momentous occasion if ever there was one!

If you didn't know, Ohio was socked with a massive snow storm this weekend. My experiences follow. Friday morning I did not have to work. I slept in and when I got up at 8.30 it looked like a perfectly nice day. I noticed it wasn't too warm, in the mid 30s but there was no rain and a few peaks of sunshine. Then around 10.30 all hell broke loose and the snow started. By the time the snow stopped on Friday we had about 5 inches. This was the lull before the real storm. Early Saturday morning, before I was awake, the really heavy snow started. The Saturday morning storm was also a particularly rare form of winter storm, a Thundersnow. Now I did not actually witness the thundersnow, but my dad said it was one of the strangest things he's ever seen. Lightning and thunder in the middle of a snow storm! By the time I got out of bed Saturday morning the thunder had subsided, but it was still snowing ferociously. Most businesses were closed, roads were extremely hazardous, and most people stayed home. I only went out long enough to pick up a few groceries at the local market.

Today, Sunday, almost ever church service in the county was cancelled. I got to stay home, and didn't go to church because of weather for the first time since I was an intern at Princeton. It was okay, but I guess I would just rather go to church on Sunday morning.

The sun came out today as well, and some of the snow started to melt. We still had to clear the driveway, and the end of the driveway where the township plows had come through was especially difficult to clear, but we made it through!

I realize that I haven't updated this blog for awhile. I have had two neutral pulpits (for you non-Presbys that is where a candidate preaches a sermon for a Pastor Nominating Committee in a church that is neither the one being served by the candidate nor the one looking for a pastor.) They both went well, but the first PNC and I decided not to pursue our discussions any further, and I do believe it was for the best. The second neutral pulpit went better and we are continuing our conversation. I'm really hoping and reasonably confident that this is where God is calling me. More on that later (hopefully).

I hope you enjoyed the big 200th post, leave a comment if you did or didn't - I don't really care either way!

Peace!

Thought o' the day: Spring starts soon, maybe then we won't have snow, or at least this much...