Cozy Moments

Isn’t it odd that snow can be cozy? It’s frozen water that is sometimes soft and fluffy, sometimes hard and stinging, and sometimes slick and greasy. It hits the exposed skin of your face and melts into a cold liquid that runs down your neck. It only falls when the temperatures are at or below freezing. Sometimes well below!

Yet on a winter evening, as the flakes swirl around in the warm light cast from a living room window, the weather exudes a sense of homeliness and belonging. A sense that, despite the blustery winds and bitter cold temperatures outside, you are warm and comfortable.

You don’t even necessarily need to be inside. Taking an evening walk through falling snow, the snowflakes dancing through the air and the sounds of the world muffled, can give you that same sense of cozy belonging. Even as the rest of the world distantly continues, you’ve found your own tiny little moment of respite amongst the softly falling snow.

As I write this, we haven’t gotten much snow yet. But I hope that by the time Christmas Eve rolls around, we’ll have at least a few inches on the ground. Whether you feel the same way as I do or not about the coziness of snow, I hope that you find a moment like that during this Advent that gives you a sense of calm and belonging.