Wind, Snow, and Rain, Oh My!

Another storm came our way, but in our area only a few inches of snow were expected. No problem. We'd already had a blizzard and other storms come through in the past month or so.

Well, those few inches of snow fell, and the winds blew, but the storm didn't lighten up. The wind kept blowing and the snow kept falling, and soon more than a foot of the cold white stuff piled up. But even with that the storm did not subside. All day yesterday, and last night and into this afternoon.

When I went down to check the mail I looked out to the front of our apartment building. Where there had been bare pavement a couple of days ago there was now two feet a snow!

Thankfully my wife and I live in a town that is no where near the ocean. Towns along the shore had snow and rain and winds of over 50 miles per hour in this storm Waves crashed over sea walls, flooding roads and damaging homes.

My grandfather liked to have a summer home that would be near enough to the ocean for his family to cool off in the hot weather. But when he bought a house on Cape Cod he made sure it was over a mile from the beach. He had seen too many houses near the beaches that had great views of the ocean during the good weather, but often were damaged or destroyed during winter storms.

Once again, with this storm, houses were lost to the effects of the wind swept snow, rain, and crashing waves.

Sandy beaches are nice to walk on, or lie on. Kids like to play in the sand with their little shovels and pails, even building sand castles.

But sand is a very poor foundation for a home. Storms with snow or rain and high winds can destroy a house in a matter of hours.

Losing a house to a storm can be devastating, so it's best to take care how it is built, where it is built, and what kind of foundation it has.

Even more important than the right foundation for our homes is the foundation we have for our lives.

  Jesus said: "And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.  And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it." Matthew 7:2i6-27 ESV