Somewhere It Is Snowing

This morning in Missouri we awoke to a beautiful layer of a couple of inches of snow covering the landscape. After thinking..."Wow, it snowed!" (especially after Spring-like weather this week!), I thought "This is really beautiful."

Then I was reminded of a wonderful analogy: The ground around is still "brown" and there is a lot of dirt and junk still outside and in the area. Spring has yet to arrive, which means green grass and flowers and beauty! Right now we are in the middle stage where things don't look so great.

But when the snow comes and covers it all up, it is like God's grace covering our sin!

I wish it was an original thought: the grace of God covering our sin like the snow covers the ground, but no....I go back to a wonderful song entitled:

Somewhere it's Snowing by Stephanie Boosahda & David Stearman

Years ago when we were in Lake Charles, Louisiana, I was introduced to the song by a young lady named Cindy, who used to do sign language as she sang this song at Glad Tidings Church. The sign language adds such power to the beautiful melody and potent lyrics. We used it on a number of occasions. Later on we had the privilege of having one of the co-authors, David Stearman, come and minister at the church.

This is a great song. I think it is time to “resurrect it!” wonderful message. And, a great thing for all of us who have to shovel snow occasionally to remember (now I am in Missouri…not as much!)


“Somewhere it's Snowing”
by Stephanie Boosahda & David Stearman


I once read in a poem
When snow covers the earth
That it hides the world's scars and
Gives nature new birth.
And they say when a man turns
From sin to the Lord
That forgiveness like snow
covers him evermore.

(chorus)
And somewhere it's snowing,
See the soft drifting down
As the snowflakes surrender
To the hardening ground.
Like the good grace of Jesus
That now covers our sin
In the kingdom of heaven
it's snowing again.

And it's told that the angels lift
Their hearts and rejoice
When one traveler turns homeward
From his way to the Lord's.
If somewhere someone's turning,
He's giving his all,
Then God's grace like the snow,
Is beginning to fall.

(chorus)
And somewhere it's snowing,
See the soft drifting down
As the snowflakes surrender
To the hardening ground.
Like the good grace of Jesus
That now covers our sin
In the kingdom of heaven
it's snowing again.

Want to see a video with the song in it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKs0bvLdzhc
This looks like it might have been part of a production.