Finding joy in a long season.
It can be so hard to find beauty in winter sometimes….especially by the time you’ve had months and months of it!! Welcome to Minnesota. 😉 Subzero temperatures make our parking-lot conversations short, ice makes us cautious, and snowdrifts on cars and roads either makes us anxious or annoyed. Winter has settled over this state like an unwelcome houseguest and I think most Minnesotans are really over winter at this point (myself included). But in an effort to stay grateful and truly worshipful no matter the season, I’ve collected a few pictures from the last couple weeks – pictures proving that winter, despite all its barrenness and harshness, can be breathtakingly beautiful!! It’s a great reminder when applied to life in general: no matter the season of life we’re in, if we search for the good things, we can find simple, raw beauty anywhere.
Oh, and those 50-degree temps I see peeking around the corner in the forecast? Get here soon please!!! 🙂
How do you pull joy with you through these longer seasons of life??
I really needed this post today. I’m feeling similarly drained by winter.
I’m glad you liked it, Cassie! It sure is draining – that’s why I had to go and seek out opportunities to love on winter! 😉
You are right! It is a challenge to stay happy and healthy in the thick of winter. I would way rather complain that be thankful. I am however so pumped about the warm weather we have had lately! Minnesota girls unite!
Yes, I totally understand, Laura! The warm weather we got last week was amazing! 🙂
Looks so cold!! Winter is draining enough in the South!
🙂 It sure gets cold up here! But thank goodness it’s beautiful, too! 🙂
Oh wow. That window!
Yes, isn’t it crazy? Jack Frost was super busy one night! 🙂