Walk to Napoleon's Battleground

This past week I enjoyed a brisk, early morning walk with Deanna, my friend on our campus ministry team, about 30 minutes up a hill from Jena. We walked in the fog to a once -upon-a-time battlefield. There Napoleon & his Grand Armee won against a Prussian army of 130,000. Many decades later it became a training ground for Russian tanks & soldiers during the GDR days.

Having lived primarily in warmer or moderate climates, I am still learning to appreciate the (brrr!) below-freezing COLD! But oh—I have learned that snow is frosty, even romantic, pure, cozy (once you’re indoors!), creative (the crystals!) and enchanting—it looks like powdered sugar sprinkling the evergreen trees (did you seen Chronicles of Narnia?).