This winter is getting a little bit ridiculous. Lent is starting pretty well as late as it can (Ash Wednesday is March 9th this year, the latest Ash Wednesday can ever be is March 10th), and yet the Nativity Scene is still up in front of our church! And we can't take it down either - because in December and January we had a few really warm spells causing things to melt then freeze repeatedly, thus the poles holding up the display are now solidly frozen into the ground and won't be coming out until a good long thaw.
Meanwhile we've had so much snow this winter that a lot of the Nativity scene is completely covered with snow - we lost baby Jesus a long time ago (in between Christmas and Epiphany). I suspect at this rate the infant Jesus will emerge from the snow about the same time we celebrate the adult Jesus emerging from the tomb.
Standing in the background the Magis' camels remain stationary, like the many airplanes grounded due to bad weather, stranding many travellers this past Christmas. If the Magi were hoping to flee the wrath of Herod quickly the weather hasn't cooperated.
Perhaps the only good thing about this unusual situation is that when the spring weather finally arrives, and the snow melts away we will be able to answer affirmatively to our evangelical friends, "Yes, we found Jesus!"
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