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BLIZZARD!

Posted on Thursday 21 December 2006 by Greg @ 2:27 pm
Filed under: Rants

And I ain’t talking Dairy Queen.

This blizzard didn’t come with fattening ice cream and huge chunks of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. This one came with high winds, twenty four-thirty six inches of snow (depending on where you were) and lots of cars getting stuck in the middle of the road.

Starting late yesterday morning and wrapping up today at about noonish the storm that racked and sacked the front range of Colorado was the most powerful storm to hit us in years. I literally spent three hours digging out. My little boy climbed the mountains of snow I made and did his own version of skiing down the slopes face first. My wife and little girl cheered us on from the window.

Twice today I had to "rescue" a four wheel drive truck that got stuck right in our neighborhood. It took three of us shoveling, pushing, praying and prying to free the SUV

I am dethawing in front of my computer thinking about the blizzards of life that have racked and sacked our young people. Morality has high centered in the middle of the road while teens are freezing in the storm of depravity that has them frozen stuck in sin and selfishness. Meanwhile much of the church is watching from the window drinking hot chocolate and communion wafers.

Church it’s time to strap on our boots, slap on our gloves and grab a shovel. The forecast is grim but the Son is coming soon to warm everything up. I can’t wait!

Signed, Greg Stier

7 Comments for 'BLIZZARD!'

  1. On December 21, 2006 @ 3:51 pm Becky said:
    • Wow Greg you are very good with allusion.You should write more books.You are one creative guy.This blog really makes me wanna write  a poem.I think I know what my next poem will be about.Hey you know my family almost went to Colorado but instead we went up north where the snow was.I enjoyed the snow a lot.Well I am off to brainstorm for my new poem maybe called Blizzard.(I’ll email it to you) ~Becky~

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  2. On December 21, 2006 @ 4:47 pm Jessica Mallow said:
    • …wow….that’S a lot of snow…i think we had 12 inches 2 years ago though…still it’s nothing compared to how much you have over there….and i agree with you also. i think that churches these days really aren’t reaching out enough. they aren’t helping the frozen people dig there way out of all the snow. they just sit back and wait till sunday to tell everyone about everything. i think churches should be more outreachable. they should recognize people who are "stuck" and help them get "unstuck"! Our youth leader had a thing up on the board the other day that made me think. a lot of places i go, i see the word x-mas…being so close to christmas, i have really thought about what it meant. i thought that it was just a shorter and faster way to say christmas, but then my youth leader had a thing up on the board that said "X-Mas is Christmas w/o Christ-So don’t X-out Christ!" i just thought that was pretty interesting..! in Christ,    ~   Jessy<<—  :]]

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  3. On December 21, 2006 @ 7:05 pm Lauren said:
    • Yeah, I live in the Denver area. Wherever I look, white mounds of snow fill my view. I was watching the news and they showed all the people that were stuck in the snow and were literally stranded. There was one guy (His name was Chris Cross. Very entertaining.) and he had used his big truck with 4-wheel-drive to tow over 20 people out of the snow. I completely agree that churches need to go out there and help people that have been stuck in the snow. One thing that we can count on is that even though the church may be sitting and sipping their hot chocolate, Jesus is always working out there with his shovel in hand. Whether he’s working through big tough guys with big tough cars or not, there’s always a rescue team coming.  Just something I was thinking about. ~Lauren

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  4. On December 21, 2006 @ 7:07 pm jessica said:
    • awsome anolgy

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  5. On December 21, 2006 @ 7:42 pm Andrew said:
    • Oh yeah Greg I am feelin you for sure. I went out of my house today and the snow was like 6 feet high. I was just astounded, and the weird thing is when I was just at the d2s website like tuesday I read the one called "You’re dreaming of what?" and yeah it was about the blizzard a few years ago. And then yesterday it just like dropped from the sky. And my car got stuck in a four foot snow drift. BAD! God Bless and Merry Christmas, Andrew

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  6. On December 21, 2006 @ 8:08 pm jessica said:
    • cool analogy

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  7. On December 27, 2006 @ 6:46 pm le said:
    • have you heard? we are supposed to get 4-20 more inches. wont that be fun?

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