Wishes didn't come true though. My friends in South Carolina and Georgia got slammed with 9 inches of snow and there was snow on the beaches of North Carolina. 49 of 50 states had measurable snow (excluding Florida) but alas, even though it snowed all day Monday, we got very little and ended with an ice storm.
I love the way my house looks when it snows but the view I love most is one from my back porch...
I call these the "ladies choir" because they sing in the Spring with all the birds that come to nest. They sing in the howling winter winds as they sway to and fro and I LOVE the song they sing when there is snow and I get up early in the morning, put a coat on over my pajamas, and go out when the rest of the neighborhood is asleep and there are no cars on the road. If you are really quiet, you can hear them sing a slow whirring song as the quiet cold filters through their branches. It is a beautiful song that seems to whisper, "God was just here... He is alive... He can make all things pure... just look at His majesty" and the sound of it sends a shiver up my spine. The most beautiful song is the one you have to be completely quiet to hear. This one was one of those snows when "He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth', and to the rain shower, be a mighty downpour. So that all men He has made may know His work, He stops every man from his labor." (Job 37:6-7).
Things did stop... people stayed home, businesses closed, children were home from school... and I loved every minute of it. For a few brief days, we had no schedule to keep, no ballgames to go to, no agenda to take our time. I cherished every minute of it because, as I watch my children grow, I know the days of having them home is growing more narrow and I want to freeze time for a few moments longer. I want them to know that their mother loves them and I want them to grow up knowing I was not anxious for them to be out but that I wanted them here... near me... safe... innocent... child-like... for as long as they could be. I want them to learn, through me, how to love their children. I want them to someday wake up early and walk by bedrooms with children sleeping peacefully and while in their pajamas, I want them to walk outside and hear the still small voice saying, "God was just here."
Wow! You have such a gift of profound wisdom and of painting word pictures with your writing, my dear daughter.
ReplyDeleteThanks. One of my 2011 goals is to write something everyday. I have a journal fo Bible study but decided to do my writing on a blog. That way I can journal my year, upload pictures, and at the end of the year, pop it all into a word format and print/bind it... then I will have a good journal of my entire year... complete with pictures!
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