Snow on the hood

            "What a blizzard," I said to myself.  That was until I looked out the side window of my car and noticed the blue sky.  Oh yeah, and all the other cars without their wipers on.  It had snowed the night before.  I knew it had stopped.  I mean, come on, I had walked to my car in the sunshine.  But now, as I drove down the road, I learned a pretty valuable lesson.  Well, as I see it.

            You see, I hadn't brushed the snow off of the hood of my car.  I had done the windows, but not the hood.  So as I drove down the road the snow was getting blown up onto the windshield.  I had a very hard time seeing, but only because I had left the snow there to begin with.

            We all have a bit of spiritual snow on the hoods of our lives.  A temper we refuse to control.  A habit we haven't gotten around to breaking.  A word we use.  They all sit there waiting for us to begin down the road.  And then, like my experience, we wind up not being able to see.  Our vision is impaired.  And we get frustrated.  And, worst case scenario, we can get into an accident.  Not a physical one.  Maybe we say something to some one in anger that we later regret.  Or maybe we find ourselves doing that thing we swore we wouldn't.  The devil finds the perfect time to hit us with that temptation that we despise so much.  And we, with our snow covered hoods, fall easily to them.

            So before you start out on the road He has set before you, take some time to wipe off all the old snow.  You'll be glad that you did.  And the people in the other cars won't laugh so much.  Not that they were laughing at me or anything.

SDG