“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and a talk beside the fire: it is time for home.” -Edith Sitwell.

More often than I used to, I hear people saying how much they hate winter. Though there are a few reasons to not like the winter season, I believe there are many more reasons to love the season of winter. Winter is great for many reasons and for all ages. When you are young you love winter for the snow that your parents allow you to go outside and play in. But as you get older you like snow less, but you begin to truly understand the really great things about winter. You understand how great Christmas and the New year is. You understand how great it is to stay inside relaxing and spending time with family instead of everyone being outside working on things all the time. Finally, you understand how great the snow really is.

Though my favorite sport is in the season of Fall, my favorite season is winter. The snow is the reason I love winter the most. I don’t look at snow the same way I used to. The snow makes me think in ways I never used to. I can thank a great friend from my church for helping me realize something great about snow. I used to say that I hated snow.

This friend told me he loved snow because of how dirty it got. He then added it gets dirty just like us with our sin, but when it snows again everything is then white, clean, and beautiful in the same way that God wipes us clean of sin. Now instead of looking at snow as something that sucks, because it is cold, I look at it like God wiping away my sins. That concept has changed my thinking on many things. If you hate winter then take a chance and think about how the snow can relate to you.