As I do this I must say, I live a life full of God's grace, in fact if I am theologically consistent even the "bad" things in my life God has graciously allowed and planned for my good. I love my life, it isn't easy, but it is good.
Today my life is white, and what I mean by that is imagine your favorite movie, and now imagine the backdrop as snow (if the backdrop is snow lose the movie for another). It's different right? Imagine Aragorn killing orcs in the snow or the dude getting snow in his white russian. It familiar but it seems different. The backdrop for life has changed.
It seems like everyone in Birmingham (according to my facebook and Twitter feed) loves this change of background, and honestly so do I.
Why though, why love change so much? Why value the rare so thoroughly? I think, and I believe myself to be in good company here, that there is something innate in the human to want change. The reason being things aren't like they're supposed to be. We crave new, but we hear "There is nothing new under the sun." Ecclesiastes 1:9; and I fully believe tomorrow if it is still snowing, we'll still love it.
If we suppose though that in a week, next thursday we are still trudging through snow to get to work, to class, to get home our tunes will change. Because snow didn't fix anything, the promises of romance, of snowball fights, and hot chocolate have faded and it isn't new anymore and even if the promises were fulfilled they'll be insufficient. Snow can only be a brief respite before it becomes our background and life is mundane again.
Snow is something else. Snow is sacramental. When I say things like this, I come from a context where I think reality is sacramental in that all reality points to things other than itself. Snow shows us something, something real and needed. It shows the need for change, the artistry of the creator, and other things I won't even begin to try to list. The change it brings about points us to a greater change. Snow shows us we want something else, but snow can't fulfill what we long for. Snow as many other things is insufficient.
But not all things are insufficient, there is one who brings a permanent change because of his own sufficiency and he will proclaim from his Throne "Behold! I am making all things new." Revelation 21:5
So I sit here looking out my blessed window enjoying the snow and desiring something else new, or perhaps something newer than anything we can imagine.
