Church in the Windshield

Church in the Windshield

Snow Day in Wilson 

November 25, 2018

 It’s Sunday morning and we should be getting ready to travel to a near-by church. But, it is not going to happen today.  We look out the window and see snow drifts all around the house. It’s been snowing all night; it’s still snowing . . .  blowing, sifting and drifting. Even as we watch, the landscape changes ever so subtly.

For a few minutes, I enjoy watching the miniature fiber optic Christmas tree sitting on our fireplace as it changes colors.

I check our personal weather station and see that the temperature is 28 degrees; wind chill is 15 degrees. The wind is straight out of the north at 19 miles an hour and the wind chill feels way colder to me than the 15 degrees shown on the monitor. I wonder if we made the wrong decision when we decided not to go to Texas this winter. Oh, well, the decision has been made and we will make the most of it.

We peer through the picture window on the north side of our house and see the drifting snow piling up on the grass. Suddenly, we realize that we are looking at the snow through an angel “sun catcher.”  It’s been there all along but we just don’t pay any attention to it.  Today though, it has a special meaning, “Angel in our Window.”  It is a reminder that God is always with us in sunny weather or “blizzard” cold. Let us then enjoy the beauty of the snow and give God thanks that on this day, we are in a warm place.

Sheron and I had our morning devotionals, (our church at home for this day); sat in the living room, talked and sipped our cappuccino. That time together is so vital to our relationship.

Later that morning I decided to take some pictures of the beautiful landscape painting that God was portraying on his canvas of white. From the sunroom window was this ever so beautiful pine tree dressed in puffs of white flock. The contrasting shades of gray and black suggest that the painting is not finished yet.  So it is in our lives, we often see only the shades of good and evil, dark and gray but, God is not through painting.  One day, the picture will be beautiful.

Around the corner of the house, we see the snow drifting away from the bricks and around the front porch.  It creates an interesting design of perfect curves, slopes and hills. How refreshing it is to think that God does all of this without even the stroke of a brush.

 

A quick look at the front of our house, reveals a thick blanket of snow totally hiding the steps and blocking the door way.  The snow will be removed later and the picture will change once again. Life is full of changes I guess; some good, some not so good but if God is with us the picture will always turn out alright.

Finally, there is a picture of our neighbor’s house; it’s off in the distance and the snow is deep. But we can get there if we keep on trudging and keep our eye on the house.  Seems to us, heaven is like the house in the distance. We can get there if we stay focused and keep on trudging.

Until next time, Stay focused on God, enjoy his paintings and keep your feet beneath you.

Ron & Sheron, drivers behind the windshield