Grace Like Snow

Well today I'm actually writing about Sunday.. so I'm backing up two days. That shouldn't be a surprise seeing how I haven't even posted in over two weeks.
So Sunday It snowed. Just days after having consistent 80 degree weather, it snows. Needless to say, I along with the vast majority of Ohio was not exactly happy to be seeing snow when it is almost May. However, it was amazingly beautiful on my way to church. It isn't often that you see a small fresh blanket of pure white snow covering emerald green. Maybe if you live in Seattle you have such luck each year, but not here.. Our snow is mixed with brown in the winter. But to see bright white with emerald green in the trees was truly beautiful and I had to stop and thank God for the snow even though moments before I was grumbling. The snow then let my thinking to the subject of Grace.
Lately Grace has been on my mind. I've always understood it.. (as much as I can) and been thankful for it, but lately the mind blowing beauty of it has been stuck in my mind. God's grace.. as beautiful and pure as that white snow covers me.. unfortunately I must admit I'm more like the ugly brown color snow covers in the winter and not the beautiful green I saw this past Sunday. This was already in my mind as I began listening to Rob speak on Gods Grace as a subtopic of his message this week. 2 Tim. 1:9 points out Gods Grace even preceded me. That " this grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time." Before any of our existence , Christ’s beautiful and pure as snow grace was prepared to cover our ugly brown sin. There is truly nothing more beautiful then grace. It has freed me, gifted me, and keeps me. WORD!! What would life be like without grace? I don't even want to know.
To conclude my thought.. How can I not be excited every day and shouting out Christ's name with my lips when He has blessed me with something so above my deserving that it is almost impossible to grasp it fully. Unfortunately I forget this far to often and keep Christ’s name behind my closed lips. I plan to change that, for His Grace is to beautiful to keep quiet about.