There’s a certain kind of quiet that comes 
with a soft blanket of snow that swirls easily down and settles where it lands, making cars and mailboxes and boxwoods stand out like so many cakes adorned with a fat layer of icing.
I like it best in the woods, where straggling leaves wear white hats and stark branches double their thickness beneath the cold blanket of snow.
We don’t get much snow where I live, so we soak it in while we can.
Amid the silence of the trees, God shouts.
Professor of Old Testament at Campbell University Divinity School in Buies Creek, North Carolina, and the Contributing Editor and Curriculum Writer at Good Faith Media.
