Orthodox Crop Circles

RA #106: Giving in to the creative side

The inferno rolled over us today. That Oklahoma summer heat. It went from “sleeping with your windows open” to “sunglasses searing your face like a porterhouse on the grill.”

I’m from the Pacific Northwest. I didn’t even know that humidity existed until I took a job with a IT company in my 20s. They sent me all around the country to train cops on our records management software. It was a fantastic job for a single, 20-something, young man. (Paradoxically, it was also an awful job for such a young man striving for virtue).

They sent me to Florida a number of times, and I learned to despise it, primarily because of the humidity, but also because of many of the people. (Shout out to the Mercedes drivers cutting people off in the free air line at the gas station.) I couldn’t get from my hotel room to the rental car without sweating through my shirt. I remember wondering if a person could drown by breathing too much of that air.

Florida was awful.

Virginia was almost as bad. After 20 years of living there, I’d only started to get acclimated, and that was probably only due to years of manual labor outdoors.

Oklahoma? Not fun. It seems to combine the parched desert heat of Arizona with the hot soupy wetness of Florida.

I must be getting old to talk about the weather this much.

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We usually get all nostalgic when the leaves explode with red, orange, and yellow. You can feel the year coming to a close, wintry holidays are on the horizon…

For me it’s very different now. June 14th is the pivotal date, conveniently located near the precise center of the year. That’s the day I found out that God had different plans for our lives.