Prepare for Snow AGAIN

Let's start out with our quote for the day:
"Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is to attain to perfect life, all truth and undying ecstatic love – which is the definition of God. In pursuing that goal we find happiness. Pleasure is not the purpose of anything; pleasure is a by-product resulting from doing something that is good. One of the best ways to get happiness and pleasure out of life is to ask ourselves, “How can I please God?” and, “Why am I not better?” It is the pleasure-seeker who is bored, for all pleasures diminish with repetition." -Fulton J. Sheen

So I suppose you've heard the weather forecast for tomorrow.  It is supposed to start out with freezing rain and then deterioriate further into snow -- a whopping three to five inches of it.  Yesterday's decent temperatures and sunshine have already lulled me into a sense of freedom.  Like I can go somewhere and not have to worry about getting there, getting home, or the driveway's conditions. 

Now after hearing all of this, I'm back in bear hibernation mode, hunkered down in the house waiting for this next blast of arctic air.  Oh, well.  What are we to do about it anyhow?  So one thing I've started to do is organize the stuff I've made and am donating to the upcoming fundraisers at church.  And maybe I can address the craft room by putting things away and reorganizing some stuff that has gotten out of hand.

When they interview people in Cleveland, they often say, "Well, what do you expect?  We live in Ohio."  That makes sense, doesn't it?  Why do we even bother getting upset?  (I'm talking to myself here now.)  The weather is the weather and we're not supposed to try and control things that are out of our control, are we?

So I'm going to quit disasterizing about the weather and start thinking about how I can use the time for a good purpose.  I'm going to quit worrying about going here and there, or whatever was supposed to happen, and start thinking more rationally -- most all of it can be postponed.

So let me move on to another topic for a moment.  The crash of the Malaysian airliner, a Boeing 777, that presumably went down in the South China Sea.  Isn't it rather odd that there is absolutely no trace of the crash?  It certainly makes a person wonder.  One thing that ran through my mind was what if someone on board actually can a device that would block signals coming from the airliner and they diverted somewhere remote and landed it?  Another possibility that probably everyone has considered is that there was a bomb on board, and that the two individuals using stolen passports were part of the conspiracy.  The poor family members who know nothing and have no idea what happened to their loved one are really sad? 

There was a book that some of the students in high school had to read.  It was called, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey."  My class didn't read the book but I heard that it was about a group of people who were brought together in a variety of ways to the bridge which collapsed and killed a large number of them.  It was kind of a history of the fate of each of those killed, how they came to be on the bridge, why they were on the bridge, and all of that kind of thing.  The airliner going down is much the same thing.  There is a story for every one of the 239 passengers, and for the crew as well.  We will likely never know their stories.

The news stream being what it is, the story of the plane crash is already moving down the online site from top story to second-tier story.  Soon it will move farther down.  Life goes on, other stories take precedence.  I would hope that those working hard to find the plane's wreckage, the black box, and evidence as to what happened to it persevere.

And I pray that the souls of those on board had a moment at least to consider their fate -- to pray to God -- to prepare their souls for eternity.