MINNESOTANS…
you might know right away where I’m going with this.

I’m thinking back at snowstorms when our son and daughters were children… We had fun! Back in that time they would cheer when there was no school because of the snow levels! I would too! Often on these days we’d make chocolate chip cookies! By 10:00 AM we’d start having two each while watching ‘The Price is Right’! We’d play games. They’d play with each other and their toys; I’d crochet.

Making storm cookies is a good way to remember that life is sweet! It is precious! And on Earth, it is temporary.

Be prepared for storms and calm them with the Word of God!

 

 

SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS FOR THIS JOY STORY:

 

 

Nehemiah 8:10
Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

 

Proverbs 31:21, 25
When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet.

 

She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.

 

Luke 8:22-25
One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and set out. As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger. The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!” He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm.  “Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples. In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.”

 

Matthew 10:7-8
As you go, proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.

 

John 17:20-23
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.  I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

 

Philippians 4:13
 I can do all this through him who gives me strength.