The Beautiful Snow

 

The beautiful snow! The beautiful snow!

Covering all of the earth below;

Even the spots unlovely and drab

Adorned as a bride so daintily clad!
And the air all around so refreshingly clean

Reminds me of God and His wisdom supreme,

Wrapping His hills in a blanket at night

To give us a world in an etching of white!

And seeing His work it thrills me to know

That He washes a soul even whiter than snow.

And finding a life, once cheerless and bare,

He suddenly places His loveliness there;

Not transient, as snow is, but something to stay

Long after the snowdrifts have melted away.

Oh, I think of Him always whenever I see

The touch of His fingers on hilltop and tree,

Stooping so kindly His love to bestow,

Like a calm benediction, the beautiful snow!

 

~ Alice Hansche Mortenson

 

...Though your sins

be like scarlet,

they shall become

white as snow...

Isaiah 1:18