It finally happened. I had my first real snow experience. Little white flakes falling from the sky. I looked out the Amsterdam terminal window in amazement.
It was absolutely beautiful. I sat in silence, not quite sure what to say, and the words "I have washed away your sins and you are as white and as clean as snow" echoed over and over in my head. I knew the words were from The Lord, because sadly I would never think these things about myself.
The past few days at training camp had been long, beautiful, painful, freeing steps. I am finally starting to let go of past anger, rejection, feelings of not being pure, clean or wanted. The only voices I had been hearing the past few months, are the ones of those I had hurt, the memories of the mistakes I had made, and the pain of things that had happened to me that I couldn't control, and I cant change.
As I continued to ponder these thoughts with The Lord, the snow picked up and began to fall even harder. I watched them each fall in their own direction and build and build until the ground was eventually covered. On its own, one snowflake does not make much impact, but when there is a multitude, they all work together to cover the ground, and you can not help but notice, just like taking steps in breaking holds we have on the past and walking toward The Lord. And its absolutely beautiful.
No matter where life has taken you, no matter the lies you have been told, the obstacles you have faced, the things you have done and the people you have hurt, you are forgiven. Through the power of the blood Jesus shed for us on the cross, we are made clean! He has washed our past and our sins away! He has made us white as snow.
