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“A Snow Day from Heaven”

Thursday, January 5, 2017

He (i.e., God) directs the snow to fall on the earth . . . .” (Job 37:6, NLT)

The first snowfall of the winter!  I could choose to curse it, because I have to shovel it and because it may delay my sweetheart’s return home (or, worse still, make her journey hazardous).  Or I could worry about whether I will try to make it into work this evening.

Or I could see its beauty, revel in it, feel its coldness, build a snow man if it is wet enough, or make angels in the snow.

I think I’ll choose to do these last things.  I think that I will revel!

Will I still shovel it off the driveway?  Yes!  Otherwise, I or my sweetheart might slip and hurt ourselves, once this loveliness gets packed down and changes to ice.  But, as every child knows—even this sixty-five-year-old child—snow is for more than shoveling.

When I was little, I thought that the snow was wonderful.  Why should I think anything else now?

Mark Cable has a wonderful song called “Snow Day.”  In it, he says,

“It’s a snow day from heaven,

And that’s a slow day for free.

Abandon your agenda

Without penalty.”

How about helping me to make a band of snow angels today?

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