Apparently I have become a “snow magnet.”  I thought it was odd that the trip to Chicago seemed so easy.  The roads were clear and the weather, although cloudy, seemed fine.  But growing up in the north, all I knew was that I was scheduled to come up to Chicago and that it was winter and that it snows in the north.

But as we got to the hotel and I watched the news I saw something for which I was ill prepared……people in the north using words like “ground zero” and worrying about how the area would handle it.

This is to say that we came to Chicago at probably the worst time of the year.  It snowed, and it snowed, and it snowed.  And then as I talked to Amanda I found that it was snowing there too……and when I say that, I mean it was snowing.  So our drive back will not look a thing like, or go as quickly as, the drive here.

But it is what it is I suppose.  I am blessed to be here among some of the most talented minds in terms of church planting I have ever known.  But even more than that I am blessed that the good Lord had me grow up in the north………sure it is Chicago, but after all it is only snow.

Goodnight my friends and God Bless!

Tommy+