Gifting

“By becoming the answer to someone’s prayer, we often find the answers to our own.” Dieter F. Uchtdorf

With a long week-end upon us (President's day, or as I like to refer to it, "President's day, except for the orange idiot") Corb and I took our daily walk around Eldredge Park a bit later and longer than usual. 

We had quite a bit of snow on Tuesday, and one of the things that helps me bide the time as we walk is to review the amount of "snow erosion" taking place from day to day. Watching the snow melt off the roadway, and then slowly but surely, watch the snowbanks start to get smaller and smaller, the space the snow has claimed begin to retract.

I couldn't see much of a difference between today and the day before. However, I knew meltage had occurred and it made me happy. In my mind, every day the snow banks shrink brings us one step closer to spring. I can't see it, but I know it's happening. 

That's the kind of attitude I am secretly harboring about the pandemic, too, by the way. Every day we get closer to turning the corner, every day spring gets a little closer. It's nice to see the numbers dropping in the States, even if I know there are concerns about the mutant strains threatening that decline, and the need to keep getting people vaccinated. Still, I feel, although cannot physically see, momentum. 

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