Snow Day!!

There is something so sound about snow. I woke up this morning and dozed for about 45 minutes, thinking of all that I had to DO today. Then, around 7:30 a.m., I thought, “Oh, the weather forecaster said that there was a chance of snow last night,” and I leaned out of bed towards the window, thinking, “There’s no way…” and then oh my gosh!!!!!! I jumped out of bed and practically ran downstairs to see Vicki. “Vicki!!!” I called. “What in the world??” She said, “I know! Everything is cancelled. We have about 6 inches.” And I bounded around the house, buzzing and flittering from the window to the coffee maker to the window again, and then to the refrigerator, and then to the microwave, and then back to the window, then to the phone, and then to the chair next to the window, where I sat, dumbfounded, for the next hour. I drank my coffee, said hello to the birds, watched Sarah the cat say hello to the birds, and just took it all in. I called my best friends and exclaimed again, “What in the world?!” It was just so amazing to see how God surprised us today!! Most of the day was spent just admiring the snow. I did some school work, and then tonight I flittered outside because it is snowing AGAIN! I stood out under the snow in nothing but my regular clothes and gazed up and stretched my arms out and just soaked it in. God is so good. Tonight I made some Valentine’s Day gifts…cute little fabric scrap bookmarks for my friends. And now I am lying in bed listening to the sleet, and thinking how snow really is comforting. It’s like a blanket across the land, and it silences everything. The only sound is the crunching, and I just feel as though I am in another world. Memphis, Tennessee: second snow day in a week. Incredible. I wonder if we will be out of school tomorrow?

Come

Come, now is the time to worship.
Come, now is the time to give your heart.
Come, just as you are, to worship.
Come, just as you are, to give your heart,
Come.


Come, Lord Jesus, come.
All who are thirsty
all who are weak
come to the fountain
dip your heart in the streams of life
let the pain and the sorrow
be washed away
in the waves of his mercy
as deep cries out to deep.
We sing
Holy Spirit, come.

Hard day

This is a poem that I read on another girl's blog. I have not figured out how to link to others' blogs yet, so I can't tell you how to get to her!

Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried;
Quietly, patiently, lovingly, God replied.
I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate...
And the Master so gently said, "Wait."

"Wait? You say wait?" my indignant reply.
"Lord, I need answers. I need to know why!
Is your hand shortened? Or have you not heard?
By faith I have asked, and I'm claiming Your Word.

"My future and all to which I relate
Hangs in the balance and you tell me to wait?
I'm needing a 'yes', a go-ahead sign.
Or even a 'no', to which I'll resign.

"You promised, dear Lord, that if we believe,
We need but to ask, and we shall receive.
Lord, I've been asking, and this is my cry:
I'm weary of asking! I need a reply."

Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate
As my Master replied again, "Wait."
So I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut,
And grumbled to God, "So, I'm waiting... for what?"

He seemed then to kneel, and His eyes met with mine...
And He tenderly said, "I could give you a sign.
I could shake the heavens and darken the sun.
I could raise the dead and cause mountains to run.

"I could give all you seek and pleased you would be.
You'd have what you want, but you wouldn't know Me.
You'd not know the depth of My love for each saint.
You'd not know the power that I give to the faint.

"You'd not learn to see through clouds of despair;
You'd not learn to trust just by knowing I'm there.
You'd not know the joy of resting in Me
When darkness and silence are all you can see.

"You'd never experience the fullness of love
When the peace of My spirit descends like a dove.
You would know that I give, and I save, for a start,
But you'd not know the depth of the beat of My heart.

"The glow of My comfort late into the night,
The faith that I give when you walk without sight.
The depth that's beyond getting just what you ask
From an infinite God who makes what you have last.

"You'd never know should your pain quickly flee,
What it means that My grace is sufficient for thee.
Yes, your dearest dreams overnight would come true,
But oh, the loss, if I lost what I'm doing in you.

"So, be silent, my child, and in time you will see
That the greatest of gifts is to truly know Me.
And though oft My answers seem terribly late,
My most precious answer of all is still... wait."

~Russell Kelfer