Stillness, Speak

It's been snowing in Evansville. We got around 3" yesterday. When winter is here, the animal instincts kick and you go into survival mode, eschewing anything that is not necesary. We made chili, baked chocolate chip cookies (I burnt them just a little) and played board games all day yesterday (I won in Clue). When the weather is this way, you walk outside with everything covered in snow, you get an idea of just how still Creation can really be, and you get a hint of how things used to be before machines. True, some would say boring. But if you pause for just a minute and slow everything down just a little, you can experience a quiet peace that is hardly found the rest of the time. Things are slow. Traffic is nil. Everything approaches the static. It's as if all of Nature is telling you to stop and smell the roses. And if you do, you are rewarded with an outward peace working inward, just a little pause in the day to day madness of everyday living.