The first day of March was a glorious Sunday morning. Waking up early thanks to son's loyal alarm clock pictured above at 4:30 a.m. , I decided to give son2 a break and take her for her morning constitutional........well, the scene was simply glorious. Alone in the snow with Dixie Mae...I so talked with God one on one and it was such a glorious moment.....
God has created so much in this world, but for me snow is the embodiment of how every moment, every part of this creation has a purpose and a design. It was Sunday morning, not a lot of extra time for us most Sundays, and we had guests in the house. The children were sleeping, but truthfully....snow is rare in Alabama...so I whispered them up at 5:30 and said "it has snowed...get up and get warm....and go play" and the four of them got up with excited eyes and threw on coats and shoes and for a moment in time, they were all 4 years old again...teens and tweens alike
It was a wonderful moment watching them from my office window, and every now and then throwing an unexpected snowball myself....knowing that this moment, this drinking in of a moment so rare....was my God gift yesterday morning. We've had some really rough rubbing the last few weeks as a family...the rubs of teenage rebellion, the rubs of a new extended family structure...the rubs of changing how our family chore structure works....stuff that isn't joyful. But this moment of throwing snowballs at each other, watching them play.....the last few weeks rubs melted into one family moment for all of us....Afterwards Dear Husband sent us all to go shower and get ready. Meanwhile he came in and cooked eggs, bacon, and toast while we showered and warmed by the fire....and our big boy brought in a bowl of snow for snow ice cream.....we added our pet milk and sugar and vanilla and suddenly breakfast became a feast as we laughed and shared in the joy of God's masterpiece then readied ourselves for church.
Driving to church in the Red Jeep with all of us gathered in was our modern sleigh ride....Dh was kind enough to take us on a few extra streets so we could drink in all God's beauty....once at church we were already warmed up for the Word that was shared in Sunday school and in church....
Coming out of church, the next lesson came. The 3-4" of snow was perfectly gone, the sun was out, and a coat no longer needed. God's opportunities sometimes are only for the moment they are offered....waiting to say "yes" to God later may not be in the beautiful glory he offers it is, but from the belly of a whale, cold, wet, miserable and alone. You can't run from God.....it may seem that what is before you is too cold, too messy, too much trouble....but truth is, God creates my perfect life if I'll only submit to living it.....the messiness can be cleaned up, God says in obedience to Him trouble will never overcome me, the gifts of obedience include provision, a path, and a plan for my life ..... as I submit to Him in amazing ways I can never see coming, God wakes me up to a new day....
I don't think my children or I will ever forget yesterday morning....it was a time that more than just the snow melted away......God helped us to find a way to melt the past few weeks frustrations with one another to be "one" again as a family.....and the gift was amazing.
1 comments:
I have so enjoyed your recent posts! I just had to share a quote
that I use frequently. I also use it as an excuse sometimes too. "SOME THINGS ARE FOR THE MOMENT".
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