The snow is pretty this morning! We almost got 2 inches yesterday evening, but it was very wet and clung to everything it touched, making some beautiful scenes. I haven't taken any pictures, I guess because it isn't that rare of an occurrence any more!
When we began our Bible study at the community center at 6:30 yesterday evening, rain had begun and it was 40 degrees. By 8:00 everything outside was completely white! I really didn't think we were going to get any snow this go around because it had been so warm. I didn't even post the snowfall graphic that was out!
I have been trying lately to not allow the weather talk on the internet to consume so much of my time. Right now there is buzz about another potential big winter storm for early next week, but it is no fun to follow all of that pre-game excitement and then have the game itself be canceled! We have had snow this January, but basically it feels like much of the pre-snow chatter has been over-rated this month. I think that December surprised a lot of weather watchers with all the snow, and they have been over-emphasizing the snow possibilities this month so they won't be taken off-guard! I have found it is more fun to be taken a bit off guard, though.
Our weather-men have not really missed any snow forecasts yet, but they have changed things as they got more data, which gets on my nerves. For instance, the data for the snow last night was showing more snow for us a few days ago. Had I posted some of those "first call" graphics you would have seen our location on a line between 3-5" and 4-6". A later graphic showed 2-4" and the final data was showing 1-3" several hours before the snow got to us! I was beginning to think that all we would get would be rain!
I've been trying to analyze why I have been so excited about all the snow talk this year. (It's a good exercise to occasionally get into your own head and reflect.) I've come to the conclusion that is more than just the fact that schools are called off for snow days and I get to stay home. No, it is more of a longing of mine to be in the midst of history in the making! I like the idea of witnessing something that will be long remembered; something important; of being a part of history!
The winter of 95-96 was such a winter with 62 inches of snow for us and folks talk about January of 94 as the worst January ever. We experienced those winters here at Pure Water Hollow, and now I wish I had better records and memories of such historic times! If this winter is one of those history-makers I don't want to be on the sidelines and just watch it go by.
I guess it is part of the basic human longing to find some significance to our existence here on planet Earth! The desire for life to be more than the routine, boring, day-in-day-out grind that can feel so dismal and meaningless!
Living through a historic winter is significant, albeit rather shallow compared to the truths God has been reminding me of lately! The real news is something we touched on in our Bible study last night. We are significant because we are created in the image of the almighty God!
"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." Genesis 1:26-27
My life ultimately draws meaning and significance not because I may become part of something great or historic, but because I have a living, eternal soul! My life was created by God and for God! My name will most likely never be famous or show up in a history book. But if it did, that would not make my life significant. My life is already significant because the Great I Am knows my name and it shows up in His book! Finding meaning to my life is easy when I remember that I am a child of the King and He has work for me to do! Our daily lives may become routine, but they never have to be boring if we remember Who we are living for!
My life may mean little in history, but praise God, I am important in His-story!
In addition to the natural beauty of snow, there is a spiritual emphasis that God places on the whiteness snow brings to our lives. Thanks to my Savior Jesus Christ, I have experienced this spiritual allusion to snow personally, and it is His will that all should experience it!
"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."Isaiah1:18
"Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow."Psalm 51:7
Nothing else is as beautiful as that!
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow....
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