Dear Joanne,
Good morning! And how are you today? Have you had breakfast yet? And now you are ready to play and help Mommy with Joshua.
Do you like the snow? It’s fun, isn’t it? Did you go sled riding? We have nice hills here in Ohio for playing in the snow, don’t we? Isn’t God good, Joanne? The grass is asleep, the trees are resting and we only see brown instead of green, like in the summer. And our wonderful God covers everything with a clean, white blanket! Snow is the whitest thing in all the world, except our hearts - after they are washed clean in the blood of Jesus. And then they become whiter than the snow!
The next time you go sailing down the hills in the white snow, you can think about that. Are your sins washed away? Mine have been. I thank Jesus day by day that He loved me sooo much, and has made me a child of God through faith in Him.
We become, you and I, God’s “bairns.” I like to think about that too. A bairn is the name a mommy or daddy can call their child - a special name of close love - as they hold their child in their arms, rocking her in their big rocking chair and telling the little one they love her. This is our place with God too - a child of God and His love.
Bye-bye.
ML-02/18/1996