Oh, the weather outside is...awesome.

I have seen a hundred times more snow in the past week than I have in my entire life. This city is jaw-droppingly beautiful blanketed in all of this white stuff. I don't care that I almost die slipping on the icy sidewalks on the way to the tube station, this is the most amazing thing I've ever seen. A true sign of how creative and awesome our Creator is.
This past Friday, I was headed into the city to have lunch and join the group Bible Study before our art class that day. I was kind of in a hurry because it was a long walk, plus I didn't know if I would have time to enjoy my lunch before I was supposed to go to the group Bible study. I was quickly trudging along in the snow ignoring everything around me when I looked up and saw a sign for a woods park.  Something told me I had to take a detour. Even though I'm in the middle of a city, I wound up in a magical forest. Everything was completely white and birds were chirping and well, you get the picture.  I felt like I was in a story book. Even though my iPhone photos cannot do it justice, you can get the picture about what I was surrounded by:

God was speaking to me. I didn't know what about, but I knew that then was the time to pull out my Bible and write down what he was showing me. I was in such a hurry to get lunch and get into the city and there were a million things running through my mind that I really did not stop to see the beautiful setting God had put me in.
"Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!" Psalm 46:10
If it's one thing I have a hard time doing, it's being still and focusing on one thing for more than I second. But God was showing me that I needed to be completely still and focus on him. He was showing me that the God that designed each one of those snowflakes surrounded me had designed me and has a plan for my life.
Our busyness and the chaos of life often blinds us from seeing God.
"Life up your eyes on high and see who created these?  He who brings out their host by number calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is missing." Isaish 40:26
We have to deliberately stop, be still, and turn our thoughts and focus to God.  Often when we do that, whatever we were doing or worrying about before doesn't seem so important.  He's got it under control.

Oh, by the way, I missed both lunch and Bible study, but I think it was worth it.