The First Snow

Today it snowed for the first time of the season and although I don't like snow, I like the rawness that I feel when it snows for the first time. As the snow flakes fell after a rain storm this morning it really showed how things can progress without man having any control.

This morning as I left for work it was raining. It was a cold bitter rain that made you want to shiver and hide. There was nothing to pleasant about it and there was nothing to stop it. Caring an umbrella was pointless because of the wind that simply blew the rain right onto you. The rain later turned to lovely ice pellets that stung when they hit you. The ice beaded up and make little piles in corners yet much of it melted after it hit the ground because the ground had not yet hit the low temperatures that were needed to maintain it in is current state. The ice eventually turned to snow. Big fluffy wet snow flakes fell for hours and as I type this it is in fact still snowing outside. There is so much that comes with the first decent snow of the year.

People have to learn how to drive again. No more 65 miles an hour on the back roads and no more speeding in parking lots because someone (namely me) could get hurt. A snowball fight after work with fellow employees is fun, but in this kind of snow the snowballs are really hard and hurt when you are pelted with them.

As I look out the window of the house that I am housesitting in everything is covered in white and is smooth and pretty. Knowing that in a few days this snow will be yellow and gross to look at. That is how we are in our walk with God. When he takes away all of our sins and washes us clean we walk around smooth and shiny with perfect coverings then we go and put one little stain on it then it grow into something even more and more ugly until we have to go to Him and ask for it to be make clean and whole again.

So as I look at what is the beauty of the first snow I can now think that in a few short months, it will melt and everything will once again start to grow.