Weekend Snows

It's snowing! Saturday morning, less than 24 hours before church and it is snowing. My question is this, why does God want to slow down church attendance on the third Sunday in Advent? Last week's ice storm dropped church attendance like a stone and now it looks as if God, by way of a snow storm, is going to do a similar thing again. Why? What does God have against Advent worship?

And to make matters worse, when people do not come to Sunday worship, they tend to forget to send their offerings! So why would God curtail church finances at this critical time of the year?

A thought! Could it be that God so hates Christmas shopping that God is willing to risk Advent worship attendance in order to launch a frontal snow-attack on pagan Christmas shoppers? To slow down the commercial abuse of the celebration of Jesus' birth, God is willing to slow down Sunday morning worship attendance -- could it be?

Or maybe, just maybe, this assumption about God is wrong from the very beginning. Perhaps God is less the micro-manager than we think. There may be some things in this world that God chooses not-to-control -- like the weather today.

Oh the ways of God, who can know?

However, if Christmas is really about Jesus, and if Jesus is the way of God, then perhaps we know enough.

Joe