This Morning

Fall is here in OKC. When we finished Morning Prayer this morning, and I stepped out the front door to go to work, I was hit in the face with the cold wind and the drizzle. And it felt great.

I like cold weather. Last December, right after Shirley and I married and moved here from Houston, we experienced an ice storm that really was unusual for this area. But we enjoyed it. We ended up not going anywhere for three days. Church was cancelled that weekend, and not only ours, but by I think everyone else around us (it was constant on the tv--one church after another announcing that their Sunday service was cancelled). If we had been working at that point, it would have proven difficult, if not impossible, to get to work. So we had sympathy for those who needed to work and couldn't get there. But for us, we enjoyed the quiet. No traffic on MacArthur, and I walked (slid!) around outside on the ice. Wonderful.

This morning, I dropped one of our hotel guests off at Will Rogers airport, and when I asked the skycap guy if he had his coffee, he said no, "This is Fall...wait 'til we hit Winter! Then I'll have coffee out here!" I answered, "Oh, yeah, I know...I remember last year!" I had my coffee in the van this morning. A good bit of my job requires driving our hotel guests in the shuttle van, either to and from the airport or to restaurants, the Super Wal-mart, 7-11, etc. I love it. I get to meet a lot of people from all over the world.

It's nice to be in a place where the weather changes from season to season. We get some snow here, which I love.

Praise the Creator for Autumn. I'm ready for the leaves to fall.


br. francis