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Praising God for Strength and Snow, 03Aug

Still got a snowball… This one fluffy soft, good for squeezing for stress relief….left over from VBS… Reminding me of HIS power to comfort me… so many times with his gift of snow in jan, feb, march…. Once even dropping me dead in my tracks… “Be still and know I am God…”

And still now… the snow comforting and reminding me of God’s power… last week I pretended to be the VBS fairy snowmother with the power of snow, (saving lots of snow from February to share in July), fun but I used it to teach that we truly truly need to look to GOD because HE has the REAL “Power to Heal…HOLD ON!” “He heals the broken hearted and bandages their wounds”… Psalm 147… It turns out that psalm 147 also mentions that God spreads the snow like wool… Yeah, it really does mention snow… Thanks GOD… You know every hair on my head…

So a few down moments for me today… hearing of folks very ill nearing death, and a sad lost opportunity to get away with my family for some needed vacation… So besides the armor of God to stay strong in preventative ways, my “go to” remedy today to pray thru it all was that I listened to Amazing Grace, date recorded is the same as my mom’s birthday… a beautiful rendition… Then I remembered why I had this as a recorded song because I wasn’t in regular church that day but instead was away, up home for my mom’s birthday… immersed in blessed snow up to my knees… Immersed in my family’s unparalleled love… Love so much from my mom that she collected two trash bags of snow for me to save for vacation bible school…  yup… snow

Yes, God made it full circle:  LOVE… SNOW… Providing… comfort… healing… SNOW… LOVE…

Thanks for making and loving every snowflake uniquely…

Thanks for making and loving each of us so uniquely…

Thank you God for the loving strength today, and thanks for the SNOW…