It’s Snowing Somewhere Today

I'm feeling the love. God's love, that is, because yesterday morning, while driving to church, it started snowing. I was thankful to be here to see it in typically-never-gets-snow Austin. When we came out of church, there was a good "sprinkling" of snow on the ground and it was still falling. Brennan put on Blake Shelton’s Christmas music and we were singing along as we embraced the atmosphere. He also was making calls to his football buddies to gather at the school to play “snow” football. We made it home and while still accumulating, these Wuerch boys, all bundled up in ski-wear, and first played football in it here.

As the snow came down I couldn’t help but embrace such tenderness and peace that the snowfall brought along with it. I called it a “sprinkling” of snow because as wonderful the hours were with looking outside and seeing the beauty everywhere, it started warming up and now only a smidgen is left. That “smidgen” reminds me of how so many of us just want a "little smidgen of Jesus" into our day, when, in reality we need a "whole lotta' Jesus in every moment of every day of our lives". That's God's grace.....we certainly need way more than just a "sprinkling" of His grace -- that amazing grace that forgives us and makes us white as snow. Isaiah 1:18 says: "Come now, let us settle the matter," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;" I’m reminded of a beautiful song written and sung by a dear friend, Stephanie Boosahda, “Somewhere It’s Snowing”. I thought of it as I stepped out on the patio and videoed those quiet and awe-inspiring moments of falling snow. It was also a song sung by another dear friend, Sharon Daugherty, at my daughter's "Winter Wonderland" Wedding. Following are the lyrics -- but, please, as you read, click on this link so you can hear Stephanie sing it with her beautiful, God-given voice. I promise you -- it will bless you. In fact, why don't you join me in having a little talk with the SNOW-GIVER and ask Him for a good snow cover today to our hearts and soul? I once read in a poem, when snow covers the earth, That it hides the world's scars, and gives nature new birth, And they say when a man turns from sin to the Lord, That forgiveness, like snow, covers him evermore! And somewhere it’s snowing – see the soft drifting down As the snowflakes surrender to the hardening ground. Like the good grace of Jesus that now covers our sin, In the kingdom of Heaven, it’s snowing, again. And it's told that the angels lift their hearts and rejoice, When one traveler turns homeward from his way, to the Lord. If somewhere someone’s turning, He’s giving His all, Then God’s grace, like the snow, is beginning to fall! And somewhere it’s snowing – see the soft drifting down As the snowflakes surrender to the hardening ground. Like the good grace of Jesus, that now covers our sin, In the Kingdom of Heaven, it’s snowing, again. https://stephanieboosahda.bandcamp.com/track/7-somewhere-its-snowing