Coffee and Ginger Bread Cookies

Today the snow came down...huge white, wet flakes, coming down in mass. Shortly after it started, the ground was covered. I was excited.....I always get excited about changes in the seasons, but when it starts to really snow for the first time I get really excited. Its probably because I am from snow-depraved Georgia. :) About the time the snow started, Christina brought me a cup of coffee and a couple of her ginger bread cookies. Talk about wanting to curl up in an over-sized chair next to a window with a flannel blanket and a good book! (with the coffee and cookies, of course!)
Whenever Caroline was up here a couple of weeks ago, she was reading through Lamentations for some reason unknown to me. One morning she was a bit distressed and dramatic and read to me a verse from the book. "Mine eyes, mine eyes overflow with water..." I had a good laugh about it. But since she has left, I have found myself going to that little book tucked away in the Old Testament a few times. I am shocked by the sorrow of Jeremiah over the state of Jerusalem. (I am not sure why this shocks me. The book's name is Lamentations, after all.) Then I read something today:

"Winners of souls are first weepers for souls."

It struck something me and has my mind mulling.....