Embrace the purity of snow

“Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow”

— Isaiah 1:18 (NIV).

I watched out my window as the snow gently fell to the ground and covered everything in sight. Instantly the Scripture verse about snow came to mind. Next, I thought of things that I had been struggling with lately.

I am not sure if they were sins or not, possibly just a few mistakes. Whatever it was, watching the snowfall, I liked to ponder how God’s forgiveness covered and cleansed me from it all.

Oftentimes, we can be our own worst critics. We struggle and strive to reach that mark of perfection, but life doesn’t work that way. No matter how hard we try, we will never reach it. We might be really good at something, or even just improve our skills, but we are never going to be perfect.

Sometimes it’s not even our own perfection we worry about. It can be our children, spouses or friends who are making mistakes. But they can’t achieve it either.

Face the facts: we all stumble and fall from time to time. But it’s through our mistakes that we find our need for God, his enlightenment and direction.

I think it’s fascinating that many desire a white Christmas. We even sing songs about it. I wonder if it’s possible God put snow on the ground at this time of year as a reminder that Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, whom God sent to sacrifice and cover our sin and imperfections, leaving our souls white as snow.

So, while we struggle to plow or shovel away the snow, why not take few moments and embrace it freely, like a child, and imagine our Christmas snowfall covering our guilt and releasing us from our imperfect ways.

• Annettee Budzban is a Christian author of the book “Letters To A Friend,” speaker, life and writing coach and nurse. She can be contacted at annetteebudzban@aol.com.