...shoveling is an activity not without its dangers. It starts out innocently enough, but an hour of solitude with a shovel is perfect campaigning weather for those who have an interest in your undoing. The pure pleasure of pleasing Josephine can be corrupted in a second into the not so pure pleasure of regarding yourself pleasing Josephine. The left hand should not know what the right hand is doing (Matthew 6:3), so this is to be resisted...When engaged in the dangerous act of snow removal, I find that you can’t go wrong repeating, “Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, Jesus!” with every scoop. I did a lot of that, with joy—for the health in my limbs; for my good, strong back; for special slant of sun at 3 o’clock in winter. There is nothing like it for deflecting the arrows of the Enemy. Because you never can be too careful when shoveling out Josephine.
Andree Seu
