5:30 a.m.  – Look out the bedroom window and see your car and street covered in snow.
6:00 a.m.  – Watch the local news to find out today’s forecast
6:30 a.m. – Arrive at church to check out the parking lot
6:45 a.m. –  Look at Twitter, Facebook and text other pastors to find out what other local churches are doing
7:30 a.m. – Make decision to have church
7:31 a.m. – Have wife ask you “Now, why are we having church this morning?”
7:33 a.m. – Text staff, make sure they know “we’re on”
7:45 a.m. – Sprinkle salt on the sidewalks
8:30 a.m. – Take inquisitive calls on cell phone
9:30 a.m. – Look across the parking lot, and wonder if I made the right decision
9:45 a.m. – Have my 8 year old son ask. “Why are we having church when the road are frozen?:”
10:00 a.m. – Decide I should have cancelled
10:30 a.m. – Energized by the arrivals
10:45 a.m. – Touched by the worship of God’s people
11:55 a.m. – “May the Lord Bless You and Keep You”
12:45 p.m. – Get in the car, so glad we had church today!