Winter hit us this past week. It really arrived after all. I thought it might be a mild winter, but the temperature dropped and the white stuff did, too. After work, I had to clear off the car before I could even go home and spend every evening shoveling my driveway. Not my ideal way to spend the evening after working all day. Not at all. This really cuts into my time! Though I don’t plan to shovel tonight, it’s snowing as I write this. And I appreciate the snow crews clearing off the streets – a bunch – but it makes the berm at the end of my driveway another chore.
Ok, now that’s off my chest! The snow is truly beautiful. I always say no one paints like God. In any season. This one has frosted tip evergreen trees, and the hills across from my house are lovely with the varying shades of white to gray. A trail of turkey tracks cuts through my lawn. They have the funniest 3-prong shaped feet. Now I know where they go in the neighborhood.
I can see where the deer lay at night.
I used to go out and play in the snow. That was before I became a responsible adult. I built snowmen, forts, had snowball fights with other kids, we sledded down the hills. I can even remember shoveling snow off the roof of the family home and then jumping into the snow piles, just to climb up and do it again. Now I just shovel. Although a couple years ago, I considered doing the roof sliding thing. Funny, as an adult, you consider breaking limbs. Hmm. Maybe I’ll try snowshoeing this year.
As I lamented the extra work that snow brings, I wondered why we can’t just be like Peter Pan and live in a child’s world always. What a fantasy. Mr. Barrie had it right.
I do believe Jesus said something about that. As adults, maybe we carry too many burdens. Jesus said His burden is light and we can share with Him. I wonder if living in the child’s world is a little of what Jesus had in mind for us when he said that if don’t have faith like little children, we can’t enter the Kingdom of God? He also invited us to come to Him as children, trusting, loving, following, expecting Him to have our best interests at heart. Do we?
“’Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the Kingdom of God. Assuredly I say to you, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.’ And He took them up in His arms, laid His hands on them, and blessed them” Mark 10:14-16.
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