Ice Everywhere!

We always have snow and we always have ice.

But back to back is a real mess. These are how the branches looked a couple days ago.

Then it all melted and everything was just wet. Then it all froze again.  Yikes, it's a mess.

And it's going to happen again tonight. There's been a lot of snow covering all the ice from before. But now it's around 40 degrees. Everything is melting. Nice. And during the night we will even have rain. So it will be real wet everywhere. Then, just before rush hour, the temperature will again drop below freezing. Come on! Prayers for everyone's safety on the road!! Be careful!

New Blog Alert!! "Catholic Librarian"

I was blessed, after home schooling my children for a numbers of years, to be able to send them to a very faithful Catholic elementary school. My friend Barb was the librarian there.

 How I appreciated being able to ask Barb about any of the youth books and their conformity to Catholic values. She is a devout Catholic mom and entirely reliable in her recommendations.

Barb, who is now retired from library work, has started a blog!! Www.catholiclibrarian,blogspot.com. She is writing reviews of books she recommends and will have ongoing lists of these books by category. (She will also write an occasional warning about books she does NOT recommend.) You can count on Barb to let you know if there is even an implication of objectionable content. She's attentive even to nuances, pro that she is.

What a fantastic resource this blog will be for all moms raising kids.

Barb IS the Catholic Librarian every Catholic mom ought to have as a resource. Now you have access to her extensive knowledge from a very faithful Catholic perspective.

I would bookmark it!   https://catholiclibrarian.blogspot.com/

Thank you, Barb, for sharing your experience with the world! It's crazy out there. You will be a light in the darkness!!

God's Crazy Love

I'm reading Doors In The Walls Of The World by Peter Kreeft for a book club I'm in.

There are a number of wonderful passages in this book, but yesterday this one really struck me.

The good news is not just that God loves us but that he is crazy in love with us. Us, who are not only stupid and shallow and silly but morally insane (that is, immorally insane), who choose the fearful over the cheerful, the misery of selfishness over the joy of selflessness, despite our universal experience of the results of that experiment. God is not just proper and correct and philanthropic in His love. He is crazy. He is super-rationally insane as we are sub-rationally insane. We are crazy-bad, but God is crazy-good. He is madly in love with his severely brain-and-heart damaged children, and we cannot know the reason for that because that reason is not to be found in us but only in Him.

What a beautiful and amusing passage.

Yes, he loves us crazily. I can hear the atheists asking "How do you know that?" Well, there is enormous Scriptural evidence. And, yes, Scripture IS historical evidence. It's much more verifiable than many other examples of historical evidence that no one ever questions.

But for those of us who believe, the evidence is in our lives, in the way we see His hand in everything-- sometimes in hindsight, I will grant you. But it is always there. In every sunset, in every sunrise, in every lovely bird that brings a smile to our faces. He is always there. Every child's adorable expression speaks of the creator.

Could each molecule on Earth have coincidentally fallen into place in exactly the ordered position to support life and unspeakable beauty all at the same time? I think not. That is too hard to believe.

The creator is lavish. He is crazy Love itself.