Trooper paw prints on the ledge outside the window.

Winter came rather suddenly this year, and as I was waiting for my husband to come back from snow-shoveling and I was looking out my window - I got lost in a reverie. I don't do this often. I very rarely just sit and think of nothing in particular. Winter does this to me. While I was revering (fun word, no?) I thought about what the different seasons make us focus on. I am a season girl - LOVE them. I love the change from one to another. I decided that Winter is a season very much about the present, at least here in Michigan, but even at home I don't really remember making a lot of future plans in the winter. Winter is about living one day to the next. Shoveling your way to your car - trudging back home - being grateful to be inside and warm. And this season came at the perfect time - a time when God is trying to teach me how to live in the moment - how to be satisfied with right now and not puting all my hopes for happiness and fulfillment in the future. I've been enjoying my husband - as much in the moment as I can. He pointed out the other day that we are actually still newlyweds - I don't know what the cutoff point is, but I imagine 17 months still counts. So, this winter I will revel in the present - I will see what God has in store, right now, not in a couple years.