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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nThe weatherman called it a polar vortex! A polar vortex is when winter temperatures abruptly plunge to a brutally cold low and we’re shivering despite wearing thermal underwear and a down parka. The polar vortex is an atmospheric phenomenon of strong winds surrounding an extremely cold pocket of Arctic air that can travel far south, causing the temperature to plunge in places accustomed to having mild winters. That\u2019s us, here in the South! Thousands went without electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The weather \u2013 wherever we live, work and play \u2013 is subject to change daily. There will be extreme peaks of cold and heat and we can choose to sit out those times or we can celebrate and find the fun in those extremes. And in the same manner, when the winter and summer storms of life come, we can hunker down and just wait for them to pass. After all, who wants to go outside when it\u2019s lightning and thundering and the winds are blowing 90 miles an hour? Or below freezing and risk getting frostbite?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nIn the winter \u2013 we groan about the cold, and in the summer we whine about the heat. Don\u2019t you love it when you see kids, completely CARE-FREE, bundling up for winter fun, building snowmen, sledding, ice skating, or running out, dancing, and splashing in the rain? And don\u2019t you love it when little kids play in the summer \u2013 not paying any attention to the heat \u2013 so much so, that we have to remind them to put on sunscreen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve figured it out. Life isn\u2019t about being concerned and worried about the storms, waiting for the storms to pass, or the winter or summer to pass \u2013 or STUFF that comes our way to pass. It\u2019s about embracing the journey and learning how to dance whatever season, or whatever the weather might be, and even while going through the storms of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve been through some real snowstorms and downpours in my life, and I survived. In fact, this gal has become quite the accomplished \u201cweather dancer\u201d. I know how to bend, and not break; I know how to do the \u201cquick step\u201d and I know how to \u201cslow dance\u201d, and, best of all, I\u2019ve learned to depend on my Dance Partner, and following His \u201clead\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In case you\u2019re wondering who my Dance Partner is —– He\u2019s the ONE Who calms the storms and He\u2019s the One, the Rock, Who created the dance and taught me to dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Matthew 7:25 \u201cAnd the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on THE ROCK.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is the season when I go to my trusty cellphone to check what the weather will look like today and even the days to come. We must do that if we\u2019re planning a trip or just wondering whether we need to take a sweater or parka with us. I brought it all on this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25882,25883],"tags":[1210,1186,1769,25879,1189,12364,25881,19849,40,2986,12366,25880,25878,25876,3897,25874,25875,2989,25877],"class_list":["post-17552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polar-vortex","category-weather-report","tag-blog","tag-care-free","tag-christian","tag-creator-of-the-dance","tag-dance","tag-floods-came","tag-found-on-the-rock","tag-ice","tag-inspiration","tag-matthew-725","tag-polar-vortex","tag-rain-feel","tag-slow-dance","tag-storms-pass","tag-subject-to-change","tag-sweater-or-parka","tag-trees-breaking","tag-weather","tag-weather-dancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17557,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17552\/revisions\/17557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}