Sometimes It's Like The Snow

My pastor sent me this picture of the snow and it reminded me of a message I heard long ago. I was working at the time. I commented on the picture and went back to the plan of care I was working on. But all the while, I kept thinking about this image together with the phrase "sometimes it's like the snow."

I remembered sitting with my husband on the couch and listening to the message by Nathaniel Urshan. I remembered how he preached about sometimes the response to God's word is not always immediate, it does not always penetrate. Sometimes I blankets the ground and waits for a thaw. I remembered clearly who we were praying for that night a decade and a half ago.

If you are interested in the message we heard, you can hear it here: Sometimes It's Like The Snow by Nathaniel Urshan.

I continued to work. But my mind kept seeing this tree and thinking, "sometimes it's like the snow." Then I began to wonder what I could write about to tell how sometimes it's like the snow. Finally, my heart whispered, "You could share Jerry's story."

And I came up with this:

The tentative back cover blurb would go something similar to this:

I thought the hardest thing I would ever have to teach my son was how to live without his mother.

I was wrong.

How do I teach him to trust God and his divine timing when I struggle to understand it all myself? How do I teach him that God has a plan and a purpose-- even when we don't see the work he does?

How do I show him that the mighty God of all the universe who can wrought miracles in a moment sometimes takes his time? That sometimes, it's like the snow.

It needs work, but that's my initial thoughts on the story.

This would be a companion work to The Truth About Letting Go, which was a short work I experimented with while I was learning Amazon and KDP. As such, this work would follow a similar layout and format, so it would also be a short novella, likely written in the first person.

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