I told my friend to “enjoy the snow day” (of course I am planning to – by going to work early which is surely why God woke me up at 4am instead of 5am to write- He ALWAYS stays ahead of the weather)….

Anyway, I was thinking about my email answer to her email conversation about conversations and people (or us) bringing bad things back up. After thinking myself, I emailed back: “I’m thinking if you find yourself in that circumstance again, you don’t have to answer or explain yourself. If God knows, and He does, you are under minimal obligation to explain things to others in an uncomfortable situation or in a way that just drags on and doesn’t resolve that scenario with that person. Like it prolongs the stuff that already went under the bridge, dregs it back up. You are under no obligation to raise back up what God put to rest. No need to reopen situations except with God, for God to resolve.  I mean even Jesus was silent at times, or used the weather to explain things…”

Ah the Weather – it changes and so does our conversation style….

So best advice? Sometimes it’s good to SWITCH to talking about the weather, let some storm clouds of life blow away…  it is better to believe in the next sunny day and put our minds there… Oh use the distractions of fluffy fun flakes to silently say: “no thanks – not interested in that conversation today!”…

And then I told her to enjoy the snow day – which is a great way to let everything else slide – down the hill – in an innertube of life… bouncing all the way… 

WHEEEEEEEEE………………………………….

amen

Then I will give you rain in due season… Leviticus 26:4

… he stirs up his breezes, and the waters flow. Psalm 147:18