We finally got snow this weekend!  It has been absolutely beautiful.  I love seeing my boys play in it.  I’ve witnessed sledding, snowball fights, snow angel creations, “painting” snow with colored water, and just general fun and mayhem in the white wonderland that is our yard.  We only have to make a snowman and that will be something checked off my life list for this year!!  I’ve taken lots of pictures of nature coated in snow and ice.  I’m so glad that my boys have gotten to experience it.

I have some wonderful memories of snow from when I was a child.  In Missouri, snow was quite a common occurrence.  I remember one house we lived in was shaped in a “U”.  The front door was in the bottom of the U, so there was a sort of courtyard made by the two parts of the house pointing up beside it.  When it would snow, there would be huge drifts in this courtyard.  Anthony and I would dig into them and make little caves to crawl around in or sit in, like our own private igloos.  It was so much fun.  Mom always made snow cream for us, and it tasted just as yummy as anything else she ever made for us.  I loved the snow.  It snowed a decent amount in Arkansas as well, when we lived there.  Here in Middle Tennessee….not so much.  So when it does snow, it is very special for me.

I walked around outside last night.  It was beautiful.  The full moon reflected off the white all around me, and it was like a magical blue world, where everything was quiet and clean and pure.  I looked at the frozen leaves on the Nandina bush.  Through the ice, you can still see the vibrant green and red of the leaves.  Even though it is frozen over, there is still life inside.  I feel like that’s a good representation of my heart sometimes.  I get so protective of myself, so afraid of being hurt that I put up my defenses, freeze my heart over so nothing will hurt it…no one will approach it.  But there is still life in there…vibrant colors of my inner beauty that can be seen through the frost.  The sun is going to melt all this snow over the next few days.  I am praying that God will continue to warm my heart so that the freeze there will be melted as well.