A very happy Monday to you! It is another one of those "filtered sunshine" days. There are light snowflakes blowing in a still wind. My Weather Channel app here on my Nook tells me it is 20° with a nine degree wind chill factor:--- and the Starlings are in the birdbath splashing water everywhere as they take their bath. Only God could produce the kind of physical dynamic that would keep them from freezing to death. It's amazing!

My morning amusement comes compliments of the squirrels today. There are at least six of them out there and they are chasing one another back and forth, up and down and around the trees. Four of the feeders now have a squirrel on it. They get this way on really cold mornings. Of course they have to compete with the Starlings, Blue Jay, Cardinals, and Mocking Bird. The air and the ground out there is just a constant state of motion as things come and go and flitter and flutter. We have a lot of Goldfinches here again today as well as Downy Woodpeckers, House finches, and Junkos. It almost makes one dizzy watching it all.

Like much of America, Ms. Kate and I watched the Super Bowl last night. I thought it was a good game. We were hoping the Patriots would win only because it is the team that daughter Julie and hubby are passionate about. They lived in New England for well over half of their lives so of course they are die-hard fans of any New England sports team. I'm glad the game is over and maybe the nation can be concerned about something important now. Its too bad that as a society we aren't as concerned about starving children, or violence in our streets as we are about how a pound of air got out of a football. Social media is running about as expected this morning. Haters got to hate and the game brings out all of it. Fans act like they are really monetarily invested in the teams. I guess they think they are. After all, they bought chips and dip and beer and a sixty inch wide television; therefore their team owes them a win.

My prayers go out this morning for two more of my parishioners. One is an older lady who suffered a stroke and the other is an older gentleman who had to have an emergency hernia surgery. Neither of them want visitors so I can only lift them up in prayer from here, but God knows them better than I do and God knows what they need. It seems our prayer list grows longer each week. When I think of all the millions of prayer lists that are out there across the world, and then consider that God addresses each of those prayers individually and touches the lives of each of those people, individually, I must ask myself; just how immense and great is our God? It literally blows your mind to contemplate it because we have no ability to comprehend it. All we mere humans can do is simply continue to accept God's individual love for us and know that if you lift up a prayer today: --- it will be heard and answered. How marvelous is that? Your day has already been blessed. Enjoy it.