A Blanket of White

So, as you can tell, it has been a while since I have been on my blog. oops.
Anyway, here's to starting up again.
:)

This morning was absolutely beautiful! I was ecstatic to put my 4-wheel drive to use for the first time this season! Driving in the snow is probably one of my favorite things on this earth. I love the sense of adventure, wondering if I am going to slide as I go around each corner, my adrenaline picks up a little, it's just fun.

Well, just before I got to church I had to pass through a spot where there had been a rather large blood stain on the road for quite some time. Some unwitting deer crossed the road at the wrong time and left quite a gruesome mess. On that happy note, I was driving right over the spot and noticed that all the snow that had fallen there was red. Completely red. My first reaction was disgusted interest at the strange sight, then it hit me at what a striking picture it really was.

When I see snow I see purity. I feel like things are the way they were meant to be when they are covered in an undisturbed blanket of snow. I don't mean that I think that whatever is being covered by that snow has no beauty in itself, when you look at the smaller picture it really is beautiful. But when you look at the big picture everything looks pure, white, clean, inerrant. Like Christ. The inerrant One who came to take away the sin of the world. Christ lay down His blanket of love across the world, soaking up our crimson impurities, making us clean again, the way we were created to be. Like the snow on the road. It soaked up the blood making the road like it was meant to be again, black and no longer marred by the blood of mistakes.

The more I think about it the more grateful I am. That Christ would lay down His life for a marred impure one like me. Who am I that the creator of heaven and earth would lay down His very life for me? I don't understand. He gave me the gift of life and I used it for the wrong things. Thank about it. If you went out and found a really expensive gift for someone, something that you knew was incredibly valuable for their life. How would you feel if they went out and used it for something completely detrimental to them. You wouldn't buy them such a gift if you didn't care about them. So, knowing that they were hurting themselves with it would cause you pain. It's a strange thought and I thank God for freeing me from the bondage of sin and death, for taking it upon Himself and paying the price for it. I thank Him for my freedom in Him.

My God is so great. I love Him.

SPADD

On Sunday Taylor had a Star Wars party and everybody...well, most people...dressed up. I was Queen Amidalla (sp?). It was good fun! Everybody spent the night because Monday was SPAD Day (Senior Prearranged Ditch Day). Sadly a couple people had to leave the next day...but the rest of us went to the Yuba River to go swimming! It was good fun!

Airsofting!

On Friday my friend Taylor, her brother, some of his friends from school and I got to go airsofting! It was a blast!!! Even though my team lost.

Hello

Hi this is R.A.
I decided to try to start blogging. I can't guarantee that I will be keeping up with it very well. but i will certainly try. I think it will be fun for at least the summer.