Snow Day!

Greetings & Blessings Faithful Followers of Mission Access!  Today as we brace for our first icy installment of Winter 2013 I ponder Disability as Snow Day.

I grew up in Chagrin Falls, OH just outside of Cleveland (translation:  SNOW).   I truly believe that in His Infinite Wisdom by allowing me to experience the relentless reality of Snow He prepared me for suffering.  From Curriculum to entire Conferences, with so much focus today on Suffering you might even think Disability Ministry is the New Normal in churches today.

Not so much…yet.  But as we say in TX, we are “fixin’ to.’”

Perhaps if we rethink the Opportunity created by the existence of people and families affected by disability we could begin to tap into the power of the Holy Spirit just waiting to be released.

While I was in seminary at DTS I wrote a poem in Creativity in Ministry class entitled Snow Day that allowed me to do just that:  rethink that Opportunity on a profoundly personal level. 

Because before I could even begin to minister to other people about God’s sovereignty in the midst of their suffering I had to answer this vexing question for myself first:

Q:  How could a loving God allow MS into my life?

A:  Snow Day!

Read the entire Poem for the full effect.  But it really comes down to this simple yet mind-blowing possibility:

For a thousand years is but a Snow Day, and

A Snow Day is but an infinite…

                                                  impossible…

                                                                  possibility mirrored brightly where

Extraordinary’s accessible when “ordinary” no longer is.

So for you my Faithful Followers I implore you to cease thinking “if only I…” and embrace “Only If He…” in 2014…and beyond.

In His Accessible Grace,

Linda