Let It Snow

If you were in Houston on Friday December 4,2009, you probably smiled a lot as you watched the beautiful and unusual snow falling. The children found hats and carrots to dress the snow men and tried to catch the snowflakes with their tongues. But, today December 9,2009, as I watch the news, I see many people across this country struggling to move cars and trucks buried in snow. Their winter is miserable. NO SMILING. A lot of hard work is required to survive this kind of winter. For those of us who are missing our loved ones, the memories are like the snow, beautiful, difficult, and especially lonely. I have been reflecting on the ways that the Lord has brought me through difficult times in the past. Relief and new life always came. ALWAYS!!! So now I need to focus on HIS Faithfulness and Love for me. One way that I did that this week was to read through the Song of Songs in the Bible. Chapter 2 verse 11 went deep in my heart. It says "My lover spoke and said to me,Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me. See the Winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land." Just as Spring has always followed Winter so will love and joy come back into my life. I have it now with the invisible presence of the Lord speaking into my heart that He is always with me. He is my lover and my friend. He is filling the deep seed of love that has been sown into me through His and Billy's love. Remember a seed goes into the ground and is sometimes covered with snow, usually a winter season and then as the spring comes then flowers appear and singing is restored. Faith plants the seeds and waits believing. Do you believe? Say, yes and wait with hope that the Spring is coming.