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Snow!

Good Morning!  We got about 10 inches of snow over the weekend.  

I love snow!  Have you ever noticed the hush of snow?  It seems to muffle all the background noise.

Snow transforms a dirty world into something beautiful and clean.  The entire world glistens when it snows.  And there's not a brighter white.  In fact, it's blinding in it's sparkling whiteness.

I can't stop thinking about the transformation snow brings.  It's God who brings not only the snow but the transformation.  Even two days after the snowfall has ceased, I'm admiring my red maple and how its winter nakedness has been covered.

And that has me thinking about how the LORD hides my nakedness.  He covers me over and protects me from exposure.  His presence and love transforms me.

In Isaiah chapter 1 we're told our sins are like scarlet, but when He covers them with His righteousness, they become whiter than snow.  Wow!  I cannot imagine anything whiter than snow.

Shoveling snow makes it dirty, and that ugly truth has me asking the LORD a lot of questions...

How am I shoveling Your transformation aside and dirtying up my life?  Where am I taking what You've done, or what You're doing, and rearranging it to suit me?  And how is that ruining Your work?  Show me LORD, and don't let me pretend I can't hear Your answer.

More questions...
Am I trying to shovel someone else's transformation around so it's safer for me?  Am I trying to make myself more comfortable because their transformation exposes something in me?  

Yes, these are deep questions, but the snow was deep!

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