Thanksgiving continues for another week, as every kid in NE Ohio has been celebrating and giving thanks for the first snow day of the year! And it couldn’t have been better weather– cool enough to keep the snow on the ground, but warm enough to have allowed for a jolly good time making snowmen, angels, and having snowball fights.
So what happened? Somewhere along the line, too many of us lost the love, fascination and fun of a great snow day. Is that what it means to be an adult? I HOPE not! Makes me wonder how many of us have also forgotten how to enjoy the abundance of other simple pleasures and blessings God pours out on us like a snow storm?
Have you noticed that, though God created all the world full of awesome beauty and opportunities for great experiences, God also created the world to offer countless simple pleasures, beauties, and opportunities for small blessing as well? Is that just coincidence? I think not! Not to minimize those great and awesome adventures—I wouldn’t trade my hike in the Grand Canyon, or other globe trotting adventures for the world—but if we wait for those rare blessings, what all will we miss?
In the same way that a winter storm and snow days are made up of the unique beauty of tiny, individual snowflakes, God created our lives both for those big blessings, as well as for the beauty of the countless little snowflake adventures every day. I pray we never forget how to appreciate and enjoy the little blessings—as they are so abundant that they can come together for glorious snow days of blessings for all of us!