Snow

We are still early enough in our winter weather here in Nebraska that the snow has not been heavy so far this year. I know there are other places in the U.S. that have had way too much snow.

Me? I like snow, at least through the end of February. The child in me still revels in that blizzard that closes everything down, forcing us to stay home and live differently for a couple of days.

And following along with the theme of snow, here is a nice little song I recorded off of KCRO years ago on a day when it was – yup, you guessed it — snowing. I don’t know who recorded this version that I have (the announcer never named the artist, and it must not have been a big enough hit to have the information survive to today, 27 years into the future), but what I did learn from my research on the Internet is that it was Stephanie Booshada who made it popular. Called Somewhere It’s Snowing, I’ve not heard her version, but she and a David Stearman are the two authors of the lyris. Perhaps this version was David singing it:

[Addendum, 11/26/2011: The internet now shows more info about this song. It was indeed performed by David Stearman, on his 1982 album Together Forever.

I once read in a poem
When snow covers the earth
That it hides the world’s scars
And gives nature new birth
And they say when a man turns
From sin to the Lord
That forgiveness like snow
Covers him evermore

And somewhere it’s snowing,
See the soft drifting down
As the snowflakes surrender
To the hardening ground
Like the good grace of Jesus
That now covers our sin
In the kingdom of heaven
It’s snowing again.

And it’s told that the angels
Lift their hearts and rejoice
When one traveler turns homeward
From his way to the Lord’s
If somewhere someone’s turning,
He’s giving his all
Then God’s grace like the snow,
Is beginning to fall

And somewhere it’s snowing,
See the soft drifting down
As the snowflakes surrender
To the hardening ground
Like the good grace of Jesus
That now covers our sin
In the kingdom of heaven
It’s snowing again.

You can purchase this track at this website