I thought I was prepared for that first winter in Seattle.  It rained all the time, of course.  I knew to expect that.  I could adapt to gray skies and rain.  I determined to make the best of it by buying everyone in my family some bright, happy colored rain boots in those first days after our big move. 

“Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group of Christian friends, 'You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.” -C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves