21 Ideas for a Winter Snow Day

No school/work today or tomorrow? Looking for something to do? Need ideas for the kids? Here are 21 ideas for a snow day –

1. Spend time with God – Bible reading, Church Online, prayer,
2. Catch up with your friends on Facebook/Twitter and other social networks
3. Read a book
4. Do homework
5. Blog
6. Play in the snow
7. Shovel the driveway
8. Help a neighbor with their driveway
9. Build a snowman, fort, igloo, or cave
10. Climb on the mountains the snow plow made from the snow in the street
11. Bake cookies or another food
12. Invite a friend to come over
13. Sleep
14. Clean the house
15. Do the things on your to do list
16. Play a board game
17. Build a tent with blankets, tables, and chairs
18. Play with your kids
19. Make cards or color pictures for the sick or elderly
20. Do indoor exercises
21. Go sledding

What are some other ideas for a snow day?

Inviting God to use U is one of the best prayers U can pray

Sitting here online considering what to write about I was having a hard time. I tried one thing and then another, none of which seemed to fit right. It was like God was saying “this isn’t the time to write, and this isn’t what I want you to right about.” I became eager and a little discouraged because I didn’t have this post written yet and people kept needing to chat with me online, keeping me from writing this. Eventually the busyness slowed down, all my friends had quit talking to me, it was late at night, the wind was howling and the snow was still blowing. I came back to WordPress and started to write. I now knew what I needed to write about. It wasn’t about this or that or the other thing I had thought about earlier but about what God was showing me during the busyness.

You see I became busy because I invited God to do life with me, to use me, and to change me. I invited him to use me. He chooses to use us on his time, not ours. He wanted to use me while I thought I should be blogging or doing other things. Yet when I say he can, I put myself aside and do what he says. This sometimes means talking with friends who need to talk, being a listening ear, stepping in and helping out last minute even when you don’t want to, writing the email, waiting for God to say “now is the time to write,” or just slowing down. I can’t say that I always obey, but I’m working on that, and trying to listen and follow every time. Following where God is leading is the best place to be. I can look back through the day and see the many places and ways God used me in the lives of others, I am thankful for this, even if that means that I’m up later than I wished, or I had to be doing something when I wanted to be doing something else.

When we choose to follow God and pray those prayers, allowing him to do life with us and use us as he chooses, it’s a life of surrender; a fun, exciting, peaceful, hard, trying, difficult, painful, joyful, life with Jesus. It’s a life worth living. He may not always use me on my time but on his, and when I invite him to be First in my life and in this blog that means that sometimes I’m also posting on his timing and trying to write about what he wants even if I thought I had different ideas.

“I tell you, you can pray for anything, and if you believe that you’ve received it, it will be yours.” – Mark 11:24

I’m choosing this February to embrace change, keeping God and others first, and to pray this prayer daily. I challenge you to join me. Will you invite God to use you this February and see what happens? If you pray it, believe that he will do it!