Posted on 01/23/2016 8:26:15 AM PST by Salvation
Holy Comforter Church Washington DC
It's snowing today in Washington, D.C. and I had a beautiful walk coming back from the March for Life this afternoon. Tonight I will enjoy another walk through the winter wonderland.
Not everyone likes snow but it is an amazing work of God. He takes a barren winter landscape and creates it anew. I can almost hear the Lord saying, "Behold, I make all things new!"
In the modern world we often walk past the glory of God hardly noticing the gifts that He provides every day. Tonight and tomorrow I don't want to miss God's gifts. It is true that these gifts come along with weather-related hardships, but maybe--just maybe--God can get a few of us here on the East Coast to stop for just a minute, rest a while, and behold His glory.
Getting "snowed in" provides a wonderful chance to become reacquainted with our family and even with our very selves. Just looking out the window and marveling at the snow as it falls with hypnotic and calming steadiness can be a prayer, if we think of God who sends it. Wherever you are, don't walk through life and miss the glory of God!
In the Book of Sirach there is a beautiful and poetic description of God and the majestic work He creates even in the "dead" of winter. Enjoy this excerpt from Sirach and reflect spiritually on the glory of God in winter.
Enjoy this video, which reminds many of us of the joy and wonder of a snowfall like some of the ones we experienced when we were young.
Monsignor Pope Ping!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
God bless you!
It’s so true!
Yes, last night was lovely for walking. But this morning,with 20 inches here in DC at 11 am and 10 more due in the next 12 hours, Msgr. has plenty of snow this morning, if he can get out of his dwelling. :)
Of course we need to remember to slow down and that in the spring, God’s snow will help give us lovely crocuses, daffodils and other flowers.
Power outages, vehicle accidents, job disruptions/wage losses, school closures (that might be a good thing), collapsed roofs, massive dig out activities (cue the heart attacks), road salting causing pavement and auto deterioration, city & county budgets strained.
Thanks, Monsignor!
AMEN! Not just snow, but rain, thunder and even Earthquakes. For all this shows me that the Earth is a living thing and fully alive, in turns tells me that GOS IS ALIVE!
Having a busy day or just tired we do not stop to think and marvel what God has created. As a child, when I see snow I see WHITE the purity of God’s touch.
Thank you.
Are you looking at the negative side of things rather than the positive?
Are you blaming God too?
And another east coast storm this coming weekend to close out January. http://www.weatherbell.com/
All evil and the failures of Man and artifice are man’s, not God’s.
It’s a swirling blizzard outside my window right now. I was just reflecting yesterday on the utter complexity of the supporting apparatus of our existence, from the movement of planets through space to the composition of the air we breath, all coming together into something as simple, elegant, and beautiful as a snowfall. How anyone could believe that it could happen by accident, or that a hateful vision of God like that of Mohammed would create such beauty, is beyond me.
Yes.
No.
I didn’t say they weren’t.
Yet it seemed so.
Praise Him frost and hail, tempestous wind obeying His command:
Praise the Lord from the heavens,
Praise Him in the highest.
And do not forget that in the preceding Psalm we have the promise:
He sends forth His word and melts them.
“the Earth is a living thing and fully alive”
I’m going to hope you don’t really believe that.
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