Snow Days

We watch the sky with great expectation.

Heavy with winter, the clouds promise a gift.

Snowflakes.

White perfection.

Quieting the sounds of this world.

Muffling everyday noises to near nothingness.

Peace - right in the middle of everything that seems less than peaceful.

Kids long for them because they understand the gift.

Weary teachers dance for them because they long for rest.

Snow Days

Heaven

We watch the sky with great expectation.

Heavy with this world's burdens, the clouds promise a gift.

Jesus.

Perfection.

Quieting the sounds of this world.

Muffling everyday noises to near nothingness.

Peace - right in the middle of everything that seems less than peaceful.

Kids love the thought of this place because they understand the gift.

Weary Christians dance for the promise of this place because they long for rest.

Heaven.

Maybe snow days are just a metaphor with kids and teachers being part of the figurative language,

showing the world what it looks like to truly long for Heaven.

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy,

the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud.

Probably earthly pleasures were never really meant to satisfy, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing...

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death...

I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same."

(C. S. Lewis)

I'm not sure what you are longing for today,

but I hope that in the midst of this Christmas season you will take time to look to the sky with great expectation,

knowing that while Jesus longs for us to live abundant lives while we are here,

embracing every snow day with the joy of a child,

He promises more in the life to follow than this world can ever offer.

He will come again!

Embrace that promise!

For our citizenship is in heaven, from

which also we eagerly wait for a

Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ

Phil. 3:20

Then I saw "a new heaven and a new

earth,"

for the first heaven and the first

earth had passed away,

and there was no longer any sea. 

I saw the Holy City, the new

Jerusalem,

coming down out of heaven from

God,

prepared as a bride beautifully

dressed for her husband.

Rev. 21:1-2