Just a Simple Prayer

First snow fell on the beautiful Korean peninsula today. I really like snow, somehow I always felt like it was a gift for me since I was a child. Cuz every time I prayed for snow as a kid I would remember getting it. I could hear screams from outside the dorms as well as from the kitchen area. As I posted my status on Facebook of how happy I was to see snow so early this year, one of my leaders remembered the story of how I prayed for snow in Egypt awhile back. I wanted to post the link of my blog post where I told that story, but realized I never wrote about it....So here you guys go! 

Since I grew up in Korea my Christmases would always be filled with snow, but after moving around and eventually moving to Egypt I obviously wasn't getting any snowflakes anytime soon. When Christmas rolled around Freshman year of High School I started getting homesick and longed to see snow again. At this point I haven't seen snow in 4 years, so I prayed for months asking God to make it snow in Egypt so I wouldn't feel so homesick. Such a selfish prayer, I know but hey I was a kid and it's child-like faith there for you. I started praying in November hoping to get it sometime in December. As impossible as it seemed in the natural I still believed that God would hear my prayers. I prayed knowing that He could do anything, but when February rolled around I figured God didn't want to change the weather patterns and freak people out thinking that it might be the end of the world, so I stopped praying. To my surprise during Easter break we went to Mt Sinai for the first time, and it started to rain on our way there. For some that may not know, it hardly ever rains in Egypt, if it ever does choirs of rejoicing would be heard across the whole country, even if it rains only for a few seconds. This rain was different, it rained for a good hour or more and we heard that they had to cancel our church service back in our town because it began to flood there. Long story short once we got to the top of Mt. Sinai to see the sunrise we couldn't even see it because of all the fog. Then suddenly out of nowhere white particles started falling from the sky. I honestly didn't know what it was for a good few seconds because I haven't seen it in a while but my mom informed me that it was snow.

I was so awestruck to see how God moves. He heard my simple prayers and changed the weather just for me so I wouldn't feel so homesick. He definitely knows how to speak to us in ways only we can understand. I couldn't believe that He would do such a thing. It blessed me so much to know that the Maker of the universe isn't just a distant God that has this to-do-list trying to check off the things you have done or not, but a relational God that listens to you and shows you that He cares; and for this girl it was showing His love through sending snow to the sandy land. I am honored to be called a daughter of the Most High; He is good yesterday, today, and forever.

Hope this blesses ya'll. Know that no matter how simple your prayers are He hears them all! Happy First Snow day everyone! ^_^