The beginning of the year on Pollywog Creek is in our unpredictable season of not-summer—an eclectic combination of fall, winter, and spring all at once.
Summer here in the deep, sub-tropical south is fairly predictable. The air-conditioner runs 24/7, it's oppressively hot and muggy, and afternoon thunderstorms are the norm.
Not-summer is less predictable. We might need the air-conditioner, open the windows or turn on the heater. It can be humid outside or dry. In the same week.
A cold front might bring rain, thunderstorms, or fizzle out and stall before it passes through. Already this month we have run the air-conditioner more days than not, had three severe storms with tornado warnings and turned on the heater.
This is how we are beginning 2016, and it's a thousand gifts and more.
Genesis 1:1
Also, he has put eternity into man's heart,
yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
Psalm 111:10
calling the generations from the beginning?
I, the Lord, the first,
and with the last; I am he.
Isaiah 41:11
