What do you think about when you shovel snow?
My thoughts as I shovel snow usually tend to be around money, for one
reason or the other. It’s not something I guess I’m proud of, but it
is the truth.
The first time I had to shovel I believe said thoughts centered around
my sons and I forming a snow shovelling empire. We’d start out small
with shovels and since we still are planning to homeschool our kids, we
could offer premium service shovelling before people got home from
work. From the profits of the shovel, we would upgrade to a snow
thrower, and eventually graduate to a truck with a plow on the front.
More recently, though, I started to wonder if we, as a family, should
have some kind of “Evangelism” category in our budget that would allow
us to provide for those in need around us, to pay for a neighbor kid to
shovel it.
The other day, I thought something else, though.
I saw the shovelling and the sun as a joint effort between God and
man. I was doing the work moving, but only God could make my driveway
black. I saw that in what He asks of us– He expects us to give our
best for Him, and He will do the rest. Like sharing the Gospel– we
are responsibile to give the Word to all men. He’s responsible to take
that Word and make a new creation.
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Comments from MInTheGap
bipolrfrenzy said,
Wrote on January 26, 2005 @ 11:36 pm
This may sound weird MIn, but I loved it when I was at home (at my mom’s house) and shoveling the snow. I’d take my dog out and she’d be out playing while I shoveled and after the shoveling was done, there was breakfast & coffee/hot chocolate. Also loved to just have my walkman on and tune in for some good preaching. It’s really a time to clear my mind and to reflect on things.