While listening to the reports of snow for today, (which has yet to materialize) I could not help but think about a snowstorm two years ago that also occurred during the work day. That was the day that every school and workplace seemed to release at the same time right in the middle of the day, right in the middle of the storm. I left the church building and headed towards my parents' house in Billerica (normally a 20 minute ride tops) six hours later I pulled into my parents' snow packed driveway.

Today while I was considering when to leave work so as not to duplicate the incident I found myself thinking, "I hope that people don't all leave at the same time again." In other words I hope people stagger their time of leaving so I am not hindered in what I want to do. Or to put it yet another way, "I hope others will do what they should do so I can do what I want to do." Then I thought that is a pretty selfish way of thinking I should be the one doing what I should do.

That is the way life is though sometimes isn't it? We hope that everyone else will do what they should do: "Someone should do something about all that trouble in Haiti." "Someone should really do something about poverty." "Someone should really do something for those people who just lost their house" "Someone should stop and help that woman" "Someone should say something to that guy who is abusing his wife." As long as someone else does what they should do I am able to do what I want to do. But, is that the way of a Christ follower? It seems to me that as followers of Christ we should strive to be the people that we think others should be. Maybe then not only will more get done, but I have a suspicion that more and more the things we should do will become the things we want to do.

"Take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you your heart’s desires." Ps 37:4