{"id":17282,"date":"2022-12-21T04:39:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T10:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=17282"},"modified":"2022-12-21T04:41:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T10:41:59","slug":"surprise-it-snowed-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=17282","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! It Snowed in Austin!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well \u2013 maybe not in all of Austin. Well \u2013 maybe only where I live. Well \u2013 maybe it wasn\u2019t real snow. It came from a machine to get our Everleigh residents in the Christmas spirit at our Christmas Party. Honestly, I had to take a closer look because it sure looked like the real deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s something about snow that welcomes us with such tenderness and peace. Sunday night, a friend and I took to Austin’s Trail of Lights. Of course there were huge make-believe snow flakes along the way!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s something about snow that welcomes us with such tenderness and peace. Sunday night, a friend and I took to Austin’s Trail of Lights. Of course there were huge “make-believe” snowflakes along the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, my Canadian family knows snow — the real deal, and they could easily do without snow the almost six months out of the year. But I know they embrace it at this time of the year. I remember it well. Those beautiful images of lights twinkling on the snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here in the South, we get sprinklings of snow, but I remembered two years ago when I was moving here, we had so much snow in Frisco, TX where I was moving from, and even more in Austin where I was headed, that I had to delay my move for two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cSprinklings\u201d. Oftentimes, we just want a sprinkling of Jesus\u201d into our day, when, in reality, we need a \u201cwhole lotta\u2019 Jesus in every moment of every day of our lives\u201d. That\u2019s God\u2019s grace. We certainly need way more than just a \u201csprinkling\u201d of His grace \u2014 that amazing grace that forgives us and makes us white as snow. Isaiah 1:18 says: \u201cCome now, let us settle the matter,\u201d says the LORD. \u201cThough your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That causes me to recall a beautiful song, \u201cSomewhere It\u2019s Snowing\u201d written by a dear friend, Stephanie Boosahda who recently passed on to heaven. I\u2019ve been thinking about her, her beautiful voice and that song since I saw that fake snow outside our Great Room\u2019s windows. The song was also sung by another dear friend, Sharon Daugherty, at my daughter\u2019s \u201cWinter Wonderland\u201d Wedding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following are the lyrics \u2014 but, please, as you read, click on this link so you can hear Stephanie sing it with her beautiful, God-given voice. Stephanie is enjoying the Kingdom of Heaven in its fullest. I promise you, this song will bless you. In fact, why don\u2019t you join me in having a little talk with the SNOW-GIVER and ask Him for a good snow cover today to our hearts and soul?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSomewhere it’s Snowing\u201d
by Stephanie Boosahda & David Stearman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I once read in a poem, when snow covers the earth,
That it hides the worlds scars, and gives nature new birth,
And they say when a man turns from sin to the Lord,
That forgiveness, like snow, covers him evermore!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chorus:
And somewhere it\u2019s snowing \u2013 see the soft drifting down
As the snowflakes surrender to the hardening ground.
Like the good grace of Jesus that now covers our sin,
In the kingdom of Heaven, it\u2019s snowing, again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s told that the angels lift their hearts and rejoice,
When one traveler turns homeward from his way, to the Lord.
If somewhere someone\u2019s turning, He\u2019s given His all,
Then God\u2019s grace, like the snow, is beginning to fall!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chorus:
And somewhere it\u2019s snowing \u2013 see the soft drifting down
As the snowflakes surrender to the hardening ground.
Like the good grace of Jesus, that now covers our sin,
In the Kingdom of Heaven, it\u2019s snowing, again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well \u2013 maybe not in all of Austin. Well \u2013 maybe only where I live. Well \u2013 maybe it wasn\u2019t real snow. It came from a machine to get our Everleigh residents in the Christmas spirit at our Christmas Party. Honestly, I had to take a closer look because it sure looked like the real…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25408,25409,25410],"tags":[1210,15341,1769,699,15063,40,1395,25407,25405,44,8859,6748,25402,25403,25406,25404,10595,13511,1402,8860],"class_list":["post-17282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snow-in-austin","category-somewhere-its-snowing","category-stephanie-boosahda","tag-blog","tag-canada","tag-christian","tag-christmas-spirit","tag-gods-grace-2","tag-inspiration","tag-isaiah-118","tag-kingdome-of-heaven","tag-make-believe-snow","tag-peace","tag-sharon-daugherty","tag-snow","tag-snow-in-austin","tag-somewhere-its-snowing-2","tag-sprinklings","tag-sprinklings-of-snow","tag-stephanie-boosahda","tag-tenderness","tag-white-as-snow","tag-winter-wonderland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17298,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17282\/revisions\/17298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}