Midwest Ohio had its blizzard last night. Today, schools, businesses, and governmental offices are closed as people stay home waiting to be plowed out. In anticipation of the storm, a flurry of phone calls, emails, radio, TV and web site updates blanketed folks with cancellations and cautions.
All over Ohio priorities were reordered; a family went to visit an elderly relative before the storm since their meeting was cancelled; late night work addicts went home early, dinners were calmly eaten at home instead of hurriedly in the car on the way from activity to exhaustion.
There is a story of priorities in Gospels. It is about preparing for the arrival not of snow but salvation:
As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” Luke 10:38-41 NIV
It is good to have interruptions in our prepared and planned lives full of worry and upset. By canceling the urgent, we have time to consider the important.
Hope your Snow Day helps you find what is truly necessary