I have decided that I don’t like snow. Or at the very least, I believe snow should be a choice, or a destination that you move towards. It should not happen to me. Yes, it can be beautiful, and I recognize the serene quality of looking out over a landscape covered in freshly fallen flakes. Unfortunately, I also recognize the hassle it causes and the way it causes too many people to forget how to drive.
Even though there are things about it I don’t like, I am also open to seeing the lessons we can learn from snow. It gives the world outside your window a strange uniformity. You can feel a sense of purification as everything looks crisp, and clean, and white. It will eventually get driven over, piled up, and turn that weird dirty snow color, but for a moment, everything feels pure.
It is those moments of purity in our lives that we have such a hard time remembering. God made the world and everything in it, and as believers we can lean into that as we learn how to trust God more. Our God is the God of all creation; of water, earth and sky.
Psalm 104:24-25 tells us
O Lord, how manifold are your works!
In wisdom have you made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
Here is the sea, great and wide,
which teems with creatures innumerable,
living things both small and great. —
And John Calvin, sixteenth-century theologian, wrote, “The creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite and the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells us of God.” God made the world for us to live. God made the world for us to learn.
How have you seen God in the world around you this week?