Today's Advent Gift - the Sun

Although things have brightened up somewhat over the past several years, the reality of living in Cleveland and so close to one of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie, is that we have many cloudy days.  The past two days, however, we have had gorgeous, beautiful sunny days.  It’s almost as if it charges your batteries so that when the clouds and lake effect snow that they are predicting comes roaring off the lake you can still trust that the sun is still there and all is right with the world.  

We have weather men here in Cleveland that seem to take great joy trying to scare everyone to death about the snow to come and the cold that will be coming in out of the north.  It’s not like it doesn’t happen every year.  That is what happens in winter.  It snows and gets cold and get gray and cloudy.  But, still, behind it all, the sun still shines and will warm us eventually.

Until then, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and for us – at the bakery – that’s a great thing.  Amen!