(view from my front door)
It's very easy for me to see the glory of God through nature in the Spring, Summer and Fall, but I struggle with Winter. I HATE snow! I hate to be cold! I hate to go out in it, to be bundled up and rush from one warm enclosure to another. I know, I know, I know...I live in the SNOW BELT! In fact, I live in the snow belt of the snow belt! We get so much snow, it is sickening! When the national news covers the bad weather areas of the country, it is ALWAYS my neck of the woods here featured. It often starts snowing here in October, and we don't see green ground until May. (This is beside the point I am trying to make, but each year my undiagnosed SAD (Seasonal Affect Disorder) seems to get worse and worse. Right after Christmas (like the day after) I get in a funk and can't shake it until sometime around May, April if I am lucky.)
So, my first point is...I hate snow! My second point is, I am struggling to see God's Glory in it all. I know that creation screams his presence and his praise...but really...through snow?
Those of you not afflicted to live in a "tundra" may think, "It's so pretty. It's so white and pure." Well, you spend some 6 months seeing only "white" and then let's talk! I feel so far from God, lost in this "Narnia"... I really wish we humans could just hibernate like the animals; it might even help my figure!
As I drove home today, I was thinking that I won't have warm weather until probably June. Truly folk, I cannot plant my garden until AFTER Memorial Day...
So, I was driving home, thinking about how long until it's all gone, then I had another thought...FROSTING!!! The snow/ ice looks as if everything is frosted (as in, the kind you can eat). Now, I LOVE my sugar, namely frosting. That is my number one weakness. Ice Cream for my husband, chocolate for my kids, frosting for me...
As I started to look at it all through fresh eyes...God loves his frosting too. And I guess he must REALLY love us here in NW PA, since He's given us an extra portion! Crazy thought, I know, but it keeps me going...Whatever works, right?
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Frosting--now that's a perspective I never considered. I'm with you about the SAD, but you already know that. I have been trying extra hard this year not to complain about the weather, since it is a fact of life here, so I appreciate your desire to see God's Grandeur in it. I do know that whoever flipped the sunshine switch to "on" today, flipped a switch in me as well.
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