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By Kyle | February 14, 2007
Tuesday night is date night for me and Elizabeth. It’s a night that we have promised each other to keep clear for time together. Like a seven year old boy with a missing tooth does the tooth fairy we anticipate its coming. No phones allowed, no talking of work, no other people, just me and her together. We’ll read, talk to K2, watch him kick, play cards or Scrabble, and sometimes we go out. Last week it was Outback Steakhouse and Barnes & Noble. (These “pregnant cravings” are great.) This week we enjoyed my favorite meal; a big plate full of spaghetti with hot Prego sauce and Cole’s garlic bread. A deep feeling of satisfaction welled up inside me as I leaned back from the table. Our apartment was warm, the Lord has provided for our smallest needs, and it was date night.
A system snow storm blew it’s way though the mid-west all day yesterday making for hazardous conditions by 5:00 pm. As I drove home from work cars were crawling and tires spinning as the snow and wind drove earthward. It was in these conditions that we decided to go to Starbucks with a book in hopes that a pair of over-stuffed chairs would be open. We were two of the four people that had the same idea. Two brown chairs sat next to each other with a table between them. While ordering our Toffee Nut lattes we were informed the shop would be closing in forty-five minutes because of the weather. Plows couldn’t keep up with the amount of snow that was falling and drifting. They were being pulled from the roads to focus on emergency routes. I was surprised when the barista behind the counter made the comment; “I don’t mind all the snow, I kinda’ like it.” I agreed with him; “yeah, I do too especially if I don’t have to travel in it.” I said. Over the sound of the espresso machine he then said, “the way I see it, with global warming and all, in eighty years we won’t see this stuff”. I smiled politely and we took our coffee. As I sat down I realized only here at a place like Starbucks, where free thought and opinion is encouraged, will you meet someone that is standing in a blizzard and has just come off record breaking low temperatures that will make a comment like that with a straight face.
2 Peter 3:10 “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.”
That’s the only global warming I believe in.
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February 14th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
You are so right!
To think global warming beleives that God has ceased and my God does not cease!!!! Oh no 
He IS!
I love the writing about you and Elizabeth’s special night. One day I hope to have a man just as sensitive and kind and set a day away for us….;) maybe someday. I love you….all, forever.
February 14th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
Nice post. The closing remark about global warming was both hilarious and thought-provoking.
I found your site from kenpierpont.com… your dad’s writings have blessed me many times over the last few months.
February 15th, 2007 at 1:50 am
So true man, so true. I think ppl are going to look back and laugh at us kinda like we look back and laugh at the flat-earthers and earth-centric solar systemers.
Anyways, thanks for the facebook invite. Grace and peace.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Great thoughts, Kyle. Love your sense of humor.
February 16th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Dude, you need to do some research on global warming. Its not about record high temps and record low temps, its about the total amount of energy circulating through our atmosphere. And quite frankly, your opinion is wrong. God calls us to be stewards of all that he has given to us. That includes the environment, and we’re failing miserably on that front. Its not a resource, friend…its a trust.
February 17th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
steven, don’t know who you are but thanks for the comment. your right about my lack of knowledge about global warming, but thats on purpose. i wouldn’t want to come across as an earth abuser. i consider myself to be somewhat of a “Jesus greenie”. i love the earth. read Psalm 24.
February 18th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Yes, Kyle you are right…God is “Still On the Throne”
read this:
God and God Alone
God and God alone
Created all these things we call our own
From the might to the small
The glory in them all
Is God’s and God’s alone
God and God alone
Reveals the truth of all we call unknown
All the best and worst of man
Can’t change the master plan
It’s God’s and God’s alone
God and God alone
Is fit to take the universe’s throne
Let everything that lives
Reserve its truest praise
For God and God alone
God and God alone
Will be the joy of our eternal home
He will be our one desire
Our hearts will never tire
Of God and God alone
Words and Music by Phill McHugh
Copyright 1984 River Oaks Music Co. (BMI)
This arrangement copyright 1986 River Oaks Music Co. All rights admin. By Tree Publishing Co., Inc.
8 Music Square West., Nashville, TN 37203. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Used by permission.
Sure, take care of what He has given us and trust Him to do what we can’t..
Sounds like you and Elizabeth are enjoying oneanother and your little one… Praise the Lord for answered pray…
LOL
Grandma
February 19th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Hey man, I just reread my earlier post, and I apologize if the tone was a bit harsh. I get a little excited when it comes to the environment. As for who I am…my wife actually came across your blog through the blog of a friend, I think. Blogs are an interesting thing. Anyhow, stop by ours sometime. (Although, truthfully, my wife is the real blogger in the family. I’m more of a tag-along.) Later.