Yesterday I overheard a myriad of complaints about the forecast of snow.  So many commenting that it might ruin their Easter plans...  Egg hunts, potlucks, church services and the like.  After a long night of dealing with sick children, you can imagine what my reaction might have been when I looked out the window to find my yard completely covered in snow this morning.  We had plans today too but when I opened the blinds in my sick daughter's room I just stared at everything covered in a blanket of white.  Instead of dismay or disappointment I smiled, God was sending me a reminder.

Thoughts of Christ's mourners and the long night they had before that dawn came to me.  Then God reminded me of the joy in their hearts as His followers realized what that empty tomb meant.  Gazing upon the beautiful snow God provided in the wee hours of the morning, my smile broadened even more.  In that moment He spoke powerful words to my spirit, "Today, My child, I washed you white as snow."    All I could whisper back was a pitiful, voice-cracking, “thank you.”

“Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.”  Psalm 51:7

"Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;” Isaiah 1:18b

“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”  Isaiah 53:5