"Are you protected?"

I am so blessed to have lots of windows in my office. One set of windows looks out on a mountain range. The other set looks up the mountain where we live. So I get a real panoramic view.

Recently as it snowed, I looked out the southeast windows, up the mountain on which we live. I noticed something as it gently and quietly snowed. Though there were no leaves on the trees yet, the bare branches protected the ground from the snowfall. As the snow first fell, none of it touched the ground under the bare-branch canopy of the trees.

Now who would have imagined that a bare branch could do that? With no leaves on it, who would have thought that branch would prevent the snowfall from blanketing the ground underneath it?

Sometimes in life, you may not think that God can protect you from the world’s cold falling on you. That God is like a bare branch. When you feel like you’re alone in the cold, remember that God’s warmth insulates you from the world’s cold, blanketing you with unconditional love.