It finally snowed!
And snowed and snowed and snowed and snowed and snowed.
I got up at 5 to check this morning and was delighted with the sight.
I absolutely love the snow. I love the scrunching crunch of it under your feet as you walk. I love that it slows the world down and gives us the chance to relax and reflect. I love how quiet and hushed everything becomes, how everything is muted. I love that it brings people together to build snowmen and have snowball fights.
But most of all, I love how beautiful the world looks when it is covered in a thick layer of soft snow.
Wilhelmina in Ugly Betty says,
"Snow is a magical blanket, it hides what's ugly and makes everything beautiful."
Snow can make even the ugliest of sights look beautiful. There is a huge, towering scrap yard a few roads away from my flat, which usually looks pretty monstrous. But today, even that was transformed into something magical.
The Bible describes God's grace as being like snow:
"This is God’s Message:
'If your sins are blood-red,
they’ll be snow-white.
If they’re red like crimson,
they’ll be like wool.'"
'If your sins are blood-red,
they’ll be snow-white.
If they’re red like crimson,
they’ll be like wool.'"
[Isaiah 1:18 MSG]
But rather than just covering over the ugliness of life, and hiding it for a while, as snow does, God's grace transforms everything it touches. So that when it melts away, what is left is more beautiful than before.
