Surprised by Joy...of Snow!

You would think that after 5 years of living in Utah, one would get sick of all the snow. Some do. But some don't. I am one of the "don'ts". When the snow falls into the proverbial glass and fills it half way, I see the glass half-full of glorious powder, whereas some may choose to see the glass as half-empty with frustrating frozen H2O. Granted, I do concede that shoveling snow this morning and waking early to drive a family member to work due to heavy on the canyon roads is an effort...but in the big scope of things...snow is worth the effort. I found several people today in the home and during my errands at the bank who all independently reveled in their love of the atmosphere that snow brings to the winter. They all expressed that they wanted more snow (even before I joined the chorus of amens).

I went jogging tonight in about 6 inches of snow. I ran from our home back into a lonely, wilderness path that leads into the National Park. It was snowing ginormous, luscious, flakes of precious white stuff. I stopped and listened to the sound of silence as the snow played its own soft symphony as each flake daintily glided to a stop on top of all of their fallen friends. What a sound and what a sight!

The Bible says, "For to the snow He (God) says, 'Fall on the earth' " (Job 37:6). God is the mover and shaker behind every single snowflake that falls to the earth. God even asked Job, "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow?" (Job 38:22) God whips up a batch of this miraculous white stuff. He stores it in His heavenly storehouse and then, only at His command, does it jump out of the storehouses and, like a falling leaf, it wobbles back and forth to its new home on the ground.

The end result defies description! It was cotton-eye-candy tonight to see all the conifer trees highlighted by God's white paintbrush transforming our canyon lands into a mysterious, emotionally charged winter wonderland of glory.

Lord, I worship you tonight for...snow. Another of your miraculous creations. May each snowflake brandish your glory and praise. And like the snowflakes, each one unique and different from the next, may we each herald your majesty, might and dominion to the nations through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.