Lowcountry residents woke up Jan. 22 to a relatively unfamiliar sight and sound — a healthy blanket of snow and the silence it brought. But that hush quickly changed to the sounds of laughter and the crunch of snow under foot and tire — and, in some cases, makeshift sled — as a region got out and about in the winter wonderland.  

While many across the state frolicked, local officials took a more somber tone, warning people to keep off the roads and that disruptions due to dangerously cold temperatures could continue at least into Jan. 23.

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Sledding, snowball fights and snow angels: #southcarolina coast revels in a rare winter wonderland https://t.co/4IxKY7epHo #winterstorm #weather #snow #lowcountrylife

— Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) January 23, 2025

O everlasting God, who didst reveal truth to thy servant Phillips Brooks, and didst so form and mold his mind and heart that he was able to mediate that truth with grace and power: Grant, we pray, that all whom thou dost call to preach the Gospel may steep themselves in thy word, and conform their lives to thy will; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

American Episcopal clergyman, author, and writer of "O Little Town of Bethlehem," Phillips Brooks died on January 23, 1893, in Boston, Massachusetts, after a brief illness. He was remembered as one of the most influential American preachers of his time. https://t.co/Fo9vnmPbab pic.twitter.com/h0V7u0Q6rS

— Trivia Encyclopedia (@edpearce080759) January 23, 2025

O Lord, Whom to know is to live, I beseech Thee to increase in me the knowledge of Thy truth.  In the truth which I know, establish me; whatsoever things I ought to know, teach me; in truths wherein I waver, confirm me; in those things wherein I am deceived, correct me; in things hard to understand, guide me; and from untruths, false and noisome, deliver me.  Send out Thy light and Thy truth, and let them lead me, till I know as I am known.

–Frederick B. Macnutt, The prayer manual for private devotions or public use on divers occasions: Compiled from all sources ancient, medieval, and modern (A.R. Mowbray, 1951)

Slowly but surely, we're getting more daylight each day. In two months, the clocks go forward in the UK and the sun will set after 7.30pm ☁️

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— Salisbury Cathedral (@SalisburyCath) January 23, 2025

And he said to them, “Is a lamp brought in to be put under a bushel, or under a bed, and not on a stand? For there is nothing hid, except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret, except to come to light. If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.” And he said to them, “Take heed what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and still more will be given you. For to him who has will more be given; and from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.”

And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed upon the ground, and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he knows not how. The earth produces of itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”

With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; he did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

–Mark 4:21-34

Good Morning pic.twitter.com/cXPq4TUHXv

— Veritatis Cupitor (@English1Maiden) January 23, 2025