Surprise! It Snowed in Austin!

Well – maybe not in all of Austin. Well – maybe only where I live. Well – maybe it wasn’t 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.

There’s 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!

There’s 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.

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.

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.

“Sprinklings”. Oftentimes, we just want a sprinkling of Jesus” into our day, when, in reality, we need a “whole lotta’ Jesus in every moment of every day of our lives”. That’s God’s grace. We certainly need way more than just a “sprinkling” of His grace — that amazing grace that forgives us and makes us white as snow. Isaiah 1:18 says: “Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.”

That causes me to recall a beautiful song, “Somewhere It’s Snowing” written by a dear friend, Stephanie Boosahda who recently passed on to heaven. I’ve been thinking about her, her beautiful voice and that song since I saw that fake snow outside our Great Room’s windows. The song was also sung by another dear friend, Sharon Daugherty, at my daughter’s “Winter Wonderland” Wedding.

Following are the lyrics — 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’t 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?

“Somewhere it’s Snowing”
by Stephanie Boosahda & David Stearman

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!

Chorus:
And somewhere it’s snowing – 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’s snowing, again.

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

Chorus:
And somewhere it’s snowing – 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’s snowing, again.