…winter.  …Christmas.  …to be simple.

We FINALLY have snow! I am happy, happy, happy. Cold and dark without snow is M.I.S.E.R.A.B.L.E! Even though I’ve been playing Christmas music nearly constant for way-longer-than-I-should-have-at-this-point [thank you Pandora – I’m not tired of hearing my same few CDs over & over]. As I mentioned in my last post, this Alaskan was really struggling with the dark. and the cold. and the wind. BUT snow has come.

::: {Insert: Notice the connection?} Dark is miserable. scary. overwhelming. yet when the light comes – everything looks different. Life on our own [darkness] is miserable. scary. overwhelming. when the light of Christ is in us – everything IS different. He gives us purpose on this earth. Our purpose = to bring Him glory. :::

It has been snowing for about 24 hours and it’s still coming :-D!!!!

It’s white.

It’s gorgeous.

It’s comforting. relaxing.

{Sigh}.

It’s been so long since we’ve had snow & we’ve been anxiously waiting so winter could ‘start’; Vince even enjoyed shoveling a path big enough for us to “get a run for it before becoming a snow submersible”. :-D! {Translation = the car is much smaller than the van…}

It’s beginning to look like a gorgeous winter and at Christmastime too! Christmas celebrations this year are simple. The best kind. I’m so excited!

ps: my camera works 😀