Personally I don’t like the snow, mainly it is because I get stuck driving a plow truck at work for hours at end. Today though, today I loved the snow. I am finished plowing and today I was able to just spend a few hours sledding with the kids. It was wonderful and the joy and happiness on their faces was worth the price ofspending a few hours in a plow truck. Then I got to thinking.
We have heard, well at least I have heard the phrase grace like rain (or maybe I am thinking the song) either way perhaps you have heard it too. But what if is more like grace like snow: pure, white, cleansing snow?
But what if we see it all wrong? Stuck at home. Can’t go to work. Can’t go shopping. Disabled vehicles. Working overtime. Complaints, gripes and bad attitudes abound in times of snow. How different is that from Grace, or at least or ideas of Grace?
I have to give up that? I have to work where? I have to… Throw in judgmental and bad attitudes and that is quite the storm.
What if we just admire the beauty and join in the fun and joy that is to be had? What if it isn’t about us or “I” but what if it is about what has been done? I didn’t cause it to snow; nothing I did or ever could do is going to cause snow. But I can join in the fun and joy of it. I can build snowmen and throw snowballs, make forts and go sledding. I can experience great joy if I accept it and change my attitude.
Grace like snow, it is nothing we have done and nothing we can do to make it happen but if we accept it and change our hearts we can have unspeakable joy. Merry Christmas to you all and enjoy the Grace that is available to you.
