January 15, 2009

one solitary degree

As some may know, we're having a bit of a hard freeze here in Chicagoland. Right now the temperature is -7 with a windchill of -26(ish). Todays high will be one (1) solitary degree. Tomorrow will be colder. It's a good day to dress in wool. A lot of wool. My friend The Obsquatch went for a walk yesterday and made a little video. Lake Michigan is beautiful this time of year. Give it a gander if you have a moment.


Today is a sermon preparation day. I need to get my stuff together and see what happens. I am interested in taking the call of Nathanael and parsing out what that might look like today, how we have to make a shift somehow, to change our expectations and perspectives if we re going to follow Jesus into the 21st Century. We'll see how it goes.

Posted by tripp at January 15, 2009 07:53 AM
Comments

wow...I live, now, in the deep south west....high today, 70. But in some ways I yearn for that bitter cold and what it is like to bundle up in lots of wool, and walk the shore of beautiful Lake Michigan, in a bracing wind that sucks the breath right out you...hope the sermon prep goes well.... that's on my list today too.

Posted by: mompriest at January 15, 2009 08:21 AM

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing. It actually made me miss Chicago.

Posted by: Amydale at January 15, 2009 09:52 AM

Roger is such fun, even from a distance. So glad I left when I did. Too cold.

Posted by: Mom at January 17, 2009 04:40 PM

Hmm...I also live in the south (North Carolina) and it got down to 6 degrees yesterday evening...I've never been to Chicago but it looks beautiful. The only thing missing from my southern freeze is all that snow! I don't think I've seen more than an inch of snow in over ten years!

Posted by: Andrew at January 18, 2009 12:31 PM