Dear friends and family, Here in Ontario we've been shoveling a lot of snow during the past couple of weeks, storm after storm after storm. Friends in Australia and New Zealand are worrying about sunburn and great white sharks when they go swimming. Elsewhere, the world also remains as it will be until the return of the Lord in glory....damaged but not destroyed. Whenever I get those old snow-shoveling back pains and have to put on my back brace in order to clear the driveway, sometimes I'm tempted to resent (just a little) people who live in Florida. Then I remember that they must contend with malarial mosquitoes, alligators, poisonous snakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, crime, and golf tournaments. How easy it is to forget that this world is not our home. A beautiful place, an awesome place, a place to fall in love with, even though it sometimes kills you —and will kill us all in the end. So again and again it's a matter of lifting my eyes over those snowbanks, ...
