Whiter Than Snow: A Visual Lesson
This year was the oddest or so I thought, Passover, I have ever observed! It was cold and ugly. The weather was bad on our drive to Passover. All I could do was complain about the cold. Where is the spring that I love during this time?!
When Passover was over and we went outside to leave, the ground was covered with 2 inches of white snow! While I thought it was beautiful I missed my accustomed spring weather, the warmth, the sunshine. In all my 38 years of observing the Passover, we had never had snow! Passover was always in the spring time, with beautiful spring weather. Usually a nice gentle rain, or a nice sunny day followed by a nice sunset was the norm but never snow!
As I observed many of my friends posts on Facebook about their Passover they were also faced with snow. As I read through them, one post really took me back and made me rethink my negative attitude of the unexpected snow. It was from Adam Boise.
(I print his name and post with his permission) He posted this:
“Coming out of Passover service tonight and seeing all the snow coming down made me think of two passages that I thought were very fitting for the evening: (1) Psalms 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. And (2) Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
Thanks Adam for this wonderful visual example of God’s forgiveness.
We all went in to take the Passover needing God’s great forgiveness and we all came out as white as that newly fallen snow on the ground. What a great visual reminder! I needed that attitude adjustment. I will never forget this unusual Passover, which turned into a visual lesson. How awesome our God is!
May we all strive to be whiter than snow with the help from God’s Holy Spirit!
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Janet Treadway
Janet Treadway was born in Washington, D.C., but was raised in Knoxville, Tennessee. She started attending the Church of God with her mother at the age of 14 along with her twin brother, Jim.
She was baptized at the age of 19 in 1974. She has been involved in various activities, such as serving as the managing editor of UCG’s first teen magazine UsTeens, which was distributed worldwide and published in English and Spanish.
Janet’s first love is writing. She has contributed many articles in various publications such as Vertical Thought, Virtual Christian Magazine, United News and others. Her article “Take Action, Your Life May Depend on It” is also featured in the reprint “The Cycle of Abuse.” Janet draws from her own life’s experiences and challenges when she writes and is motivated to give readers hope that God will see them through anything.
Janet has worked in the home office of the United Church of God since 1998. She is married to Charles Treadway and has four children, David, Michelle, Michael and Josh, as well as six grandchildren and two granddogs, Jo Jo and Vinny.
