Despite Roller-coaster Weather, Thankful For A Change In Seasons
Please tell me I’m not the only person who’s sick of this flip-flopping weather.
Actually, I could go for some flip-flop weather, but I’m about done with this almost daily dramatic change in temperature and precipitation.
I know, I know – everyone seems to be talking about the weather lately. It’s usually this time of year, when we can’t seem to get a weeks’ worth of decent weather, that talk of it is constant.
I have such a love/hate relationship with weather, especially during the winter months.
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t know how much longer I can take getting snow and ice one day, then the temperature spikes to 55 degrees the next day. Well, I’ll actually gladly take more 55-degree-or-higher days.
It makes you wonder how that drastic change is even possible.
Punxsutawney Phil, the famous weather-predicting groundhog from Pennsylvania, didn’t see his shadow this year. So, according to legend, we’re supposed to get an early spring.
Yes, please!
Out of 123 recorded years — there are 10 years of unrecorded history — this is only the 19th time Phil hasn’t found his shadow, according to a USA Today report.
Personally, I think ol’ Phil lied. I don’t see or feel spring coming any time soon.
I’ve lived in Indiana my whole life, so the roller-coaster weather of brutal cold one day followed by spring temperatures the next really shouldn’t surprise me.
Not only does the rapid weather change often make us sick and grumpy, but it can make driving difficult causing some people to get in accidents, and too much rain can harm crops and disrupt livelihoods.
Despite my complaints about weather, I am thankful to live in an area that has changing seasons. While personally I would prefer seasons that – I don’t know – don’t change on a daily basis, I do enjoy that Indiana offers spring, summer, fall and winter.
I’m trying to keep my faith that better – and warmer – days are ahead.
So in all my grumpiness with the weather, I’m striving to remember that I’m blessed to live in an area that has changing seasons. I hope you’ll do the same.
“He hath made the earth by his power, He hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion. When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; He maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures” (Jeremiah 10:12–13).
“Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened. Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: He scattereth his bright cloud: And it is turned round about by his counsels: That they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth. He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy. Hearken unto this, O Job: Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God” (Job 37:9–14).
"While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease" (Genesis 8:22).
