Downpour

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   When snow downpour is pure, and it blankets the roofs and grounds, the sight is just marvelously delicious to the eyes.  However, wintry weather brings a mix of responses that young and old both love and loathe. To the carefree and young, the hopeful wish is that snow sticks long enough to merit a winter sporting event of slipping and sliding, bumping and snowball-chunking or snowman-making enough to catch a special time of good fun.  Not to folks, however, who must travel the roads after a bulky, icy cold snow downpour.  Literally and figuratively, snow-filled roads bring real threats to be contended with, much like any other life-threatening storms.  People could be stranded in thick downpours.  Road visibility is an enormous challenge.  There's no telling when a car might spin, slide or get out of control.  Accidental hurts or deaths are honest to goodness realities brought about by treacherous wintry roads.

 

 

   Like a beautiful snow downpour, our birth into a world brings mixed hopes and threats.  I heard a film character just the other day paradoxically say, "Being born is a gamble."  I thought long of that statement.  I thought longer of the mixed joys and fears of parents who bring a newborn into our world.  I thought the longest time about the challenges that await its life, but likewise marveled at its possibilities.