At the end of a week’s worth of treacherous weather and white stuff in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, the phrase, “melt the snow…” came to mind.  Investigating the thought, I realized I was trying to rewrite Henry van Dyke’s “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee”:

Melt the clouds of sin and sadness; drive the dark of doubt away;
Giver of immortal gladness, fill us with the light of day!

Along with snow, there can be much heaviness and sadness at this time of year.  Maybe Christmas did not meet expectations, or piles of bills mirror the drifts outside. Perhaps heaviness comes with thoughts of enduring endless winter weather.

It is alarmingly easy to forget about the tidings of comfort and joy sung about in December.  But, along with that hope, we can reflect on this!  No matter our season in life, our “God of glory” and “Lord of love” has the ultimate power to melt and drive away the sadness and doubt that weights us.  True gladness and light are from Him—we cannot insert our own and find relief.  He longs to fill our lives with them while we wait for that cloudless day when He appears to take us home.

Psalm 112:4; 119:130; 139:12

Isaiah 35:10