Snow in July

Hello readers, and glad many of you still are. The title for today's blog comes from a conversation I had with a stranger last spring while waiting for the bus. She told me her name and we talked for a while about God, life, and current events. She mentioned the weather we were having and how "crazy" it was (quotes mine) and how she remembered it snowing in July one time in Richmond, VA. I shared with her that I had a dream once about it hailing here in June. "Lo, and behold", as my mom used to say, it did two months later lol.

Vanessa Williams, the real Miss America, had a song "Save the Best for Last" that mentioned the snow coming down in June. Now, before you get any ideas about the stranger's and my relationship, the change in the weather pattern since the pandemic is very noteworthy.

As I have mentioned to some family and friends the Mayan calendar predicted a great cataclysm in the year 2012. In the span of human history being eight years off isn't too shabby. It caused me to look at the Roman calendar we use with some suspicion.

The pandemic itself also caused me to draw closer to my faith as it was prophesied in Revelations in scripture concerning the four horsemen of the apocalypse, which means revelation.

Acts 2:17 talks about God pouring his spirit on everyone and our "sons and daughters" prophesying and our "young men" seeing "visions" and our "old men" having "dreams." -New American Standard Bible. A middle school classmate of mine brought this scripture to my attention around the year 2012 and I took hold of it at the time as well as some words he'd said God told him: to not "hold back."

We are in some of the most trying times in human history and 'though we've made some great strides it is no time to stop now. Many signs from my faith, what I call "Born-again Christianity" point to this and all people of faiths and knowledge are being tested. Hold fast to God, love, faith, and hope; be open to knowledge; and press on.

Until next time, remember God loves you and so do I.