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Waiting for spring

January 15, 2011 by Amelia

I caught myself longing for spring the other day. When I realized what I was doing, I audibly gasped and changed the direction of my thoughts. Longing for spring in the middle of January in Michigan can be a bad move. Lest I forget – it snowed April 1 when we moved back to Michigan and it snowed last May the day of our 25k race. Brr!

The snow is pretty though. I’m sitting here eating breakfast, drinking coffee, and the world outside looks like a snow globe. Big fluffy flakes are falling to the ground blanketing the slumbering vegetation in pure white. I’ve always loved Isaiah 1:18 “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.” Sometimes I think God used the snow analogy so that in the dead of January while we’re longing for sunshine and green grass and fresh flowers and growing gardens that we could see redemption in the snow. It brings covering to the lifeless land, just as we’ve been covered by the cleansing of Jesus’ blood. Our lives too have been given a new landscape.

And now, where are my snow boots? It’s time to go shovel the driveway. I love the snow. I love the snow. I love the snow. Oh who am I kidding? I love the snow as long as I’m not shoveling it!

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  1. Susie Finkbeiner says

    January 16, 2011 at 12:48 am

    “Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe! Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow!” Love that song…love the analogy. I’m trying to love the big fat snowflakes too.

  2. Lisa says

    January 16, 2011 at 9:33 am

    Boy do I hear you! Winter in Buffalo is just as dreary sometimes! It has actually been my goal this week to change my attitude about it!

    Read this little poem that I posted earlier this week!

    http://littlewritermomma.blogspot.com/2011/01/whether-weather-be-cold.html

    Thanks for the beautiful verse!

  3. Topher says

    January 16, 2011 at 12:24 pm

    Wishing for another season is always tough for me. I start looking for summer in about April. I start looking for Winter in mid-july. 🙂

    It’s really true, but I’ve worked hard to use it as a learning tool to be very deliberate about enjoying the season God has put me in. I may not love summer, but there are things about summer I enjoy, and rather than whine about how hot and sweaty and boring it is, I work at celebrating the earth God has given us.

    Yay fireworks!

  4. admin says

    January 16, 2011 at 1:58 pm

    Oh, I hadn’t thought of that song, Susie! It fits perfectly!

    Lisa – Great post and poem. You really get nasty winters up where you are.

    Topher what a good reminder to enjoy the season God has put is in, both literally and otherwise.

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