BLIZZARD 2011

This past Tuesday into Wednesday, we had a blizzard here in Northern Illinois. Haven't had a storm like this in over a decade! Weather people were calling for over a foot to a foot and a half of snow, with wind gusts topping 60 mph! White out conditions, very low visibility while driving were common. Roads being blown closed because of drifting snow, also very common.

Wednesday morning, our daughter's school was cancelled. My wife could not make it to work either. At about ten o'clock in the morning, I decide to go out and have a look around to see what I needed to get done, so we could leave the house if we needed to. I get all of my snow blowing gear on and headed outside. I pushed the button to open the garage door and it only opened about six inches and stopped. I did this about three more times, then finally had to help it up by hand. When it went up, what I saw I could not believe. The snow drift was about half way up our door. Almost three feet of drift. No wonder the door didn't want to open!

So I borrow my daughter's camera and proceed to take pictures of the fallout from the epic storm. Our backyard is un-navigable! Drifts almost to the top of our privacy fence. Our LP tank is completely covered, except for the lid that covers the dials. So I get out our snow blower, pray to GOD that He gives me the strength and edurance to get this all done. I start the blower and proceed to work on the drift blocking our door.

I was out there a little over two hours, and with the help of my wife, we got it done! From start to finish, it didn't look like the same driveway! I had to blow it twice; once to knock down the big drifts, the second to get down to the pavement. With each pass or swipe of the snow blower, the snow was being removed and placed someplace else. Praise GOD for our snow blower!

That got me started to think about Jesus and the removing of our sins. With each passing day of being a believer of Jesus, He makes us more and more like Him. The Holy Spirit takes away our temptation to do evil. We have to repent and ask Jesus for forgiveness for our sins.  He washes our sins white as snow.