Snowfall

When you live in he South, snow is not an every year occurance. When the forecasters say there is a chance of snow, it usually doesn't materialize. However, when they say 2-4 inches, you tend to perk up and hold out some hope that the white stuff will fall. You prepare to be inside for a few days because power might go out with pines falling on the lines or roads might be impassable because there's no need to invest in snow/ice removal equipment when we get less than an inch of snow on average each year.

On Friday we prepared. We had some pretty snow whitening the ground around 10 p.m.

Job 37:5-6a God thunders marvelously with His voice; He does great things which we cannot comprehend. For He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth';

The next morning we eagerly looked out the window to discover...no more, that was it. No more snow had fallen. No snowmen or snow cream were in our future. The tiny bit of snow was frozen and our disappointment was evident.

Now we look on the bright side. We were released early from school and work, we finished the laundry early, we picked up more groceries to cook at home and we stayed warm when the temps dropped to the teens. For all of that I am grateful that God said to the snow, 'Fall on the earth.'