snow – Choose Joy: Poems, Prayers and Prose

Snow Haiku 3

I gaze at the trees

Their branches covered with snow –

I shiver, in awe.

Gracious, loving God,

On this cold, wintry day

I thank you for the warmth of your love

that covers me like a blanket,

keeping me safe and secure.

As the snow lays on the ground.

I am comforted by your words through the prophet Isaiah,

that though my “sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow.”

Thank you for your grace and forgiveness.

Help me to fall asleep again, and in the darkness breathe

deeply and close my eyes.

Watch over me and all I love until I awaken to the dawning

of a new day.

Soft, white cold icing

laying on bare tree branches –

newly-fallen snow.