This morning as we pulled into church, one of the parking lot attendants/security guys stopped us and warned us that the entire parking lot was black ice. We thanked him and slowly found a parking spot, where we then braced ourselves for the frigid cold and wind and climbed out of the car. We carefully did the small "step-step-steps" of ice walking, until a huge gust of wind snatched our offering envelope out of Col's Bible and whipped it up in the air and away.
I exclaimed how, "We can't even run after it!," because of the ice, so we headed in the direction that it had blown as quickly as one possibly can on sheets of black ice, which really isn't that quick at all. I couldn't help but burst out laughing as I pictured the two of us, trying to stand upright on the ice and chase down our offering. Not only that, but the envelope was white and the wind so strong and constant, that we lost sight of it.
During this time, I also noticed a gentleman in his car who looked ready to park but then pulled towards us as if to help but was probably thinking, "What the heck are these two doing?!" because I'm not sure he saw the whole thing happen. He ultimately decided to just stay where he was and park. Col asked where it went, and thankfully we spotted it stuck in the snowbank. He grabbed it before it could fly away again, and we made our way carefully back toward church and inside, laughing the whole time.
Sometimes, something like this would stress me out (hey, money blowing away is never good). I'm so thankful that today I didn't even think about that and instead saw how hilarious we looked. There's nothing like a good laugh to start off the day!
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