Summer Snow

I had the oddest dream sometime in the early hours of today. Well, maybe not the oddest, considering, but still a little disconcerting. There is no preamble, and I have spent most of the day wondering what it might mean.
In the dream I woke, as I do most mornings, early, and glanced at the summer sky on my way through the kitchen, always grateful after endless gray and rainy skies to see the brilliant brush strokes of the sunrise and the promise of blue skies. It is July first in my dream too & I am looking forward to an extra day at home to catch up on housework & spend an afternoon in the summer sun, so I am stunned to see snow-big fluffy flakes of snow swirling out of a pale blue early morning summer sky. It is not cold, if fact the radio announcer is promising an ideal summer day, but the snow is clinging to the grass and trees, a surreal picture.

That is the entirety of the dream. I do recall the snow storm we had in August the year before my oldest son was born. It was heavy and wet, flattened the crops, the caragana bushes, the stalks of corn in my garden. This snow was not at all like that at all. When I woke up for "real" this morning I almost didn't want to look out the window for fear that I would see winter's untimely return. Thankfully I discovered the end of a summer sunrise in a cloudy blue sky.

I am still not sure what the dream means, but given most of the dreams I am able to both recall and relate do have some significance, I am wont to believe this one too has some deeper meaning. Snow, I know, we often equate with cleanness, or purity ("pure as the driven snow"), but I did wonder what the Bible had to say about snow.

These are the passages that stood out to me:


“ Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD, “ Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool. Isaiah 1:18

“ For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater,
Isaiah 55:10

His countenance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow.
Matthew 28:3

Even before I turned to my concordance Isaiah 1:18 crossed my thoughts. I have always liked the diamond like glitter of a fresh blanket of snow, before anyone tracks through it.
I was satisfied with the snow speaking to me of purity, of righteousness, of being made clean & new again, and yet I was curious, what else might snow represent?
I learned a blanket of snow can represent covering things (emotions) up...but it was falling snow in my dream, not a blanket. Snowstorms can represent chaos, but this was not a storm. One site talked about "being 'left out in the cold'", but this is July & it was not cold. None of these things resonated with my spirit. But I also read snow can represent gentleness and peace. Now, that fit with what I saw. Yes, I was irritated at the sight of inclement weather, but the snow was lovely to watch swirling outside my window, and I felt happy and peaceful.

I still don't know what my dream was about. I am hoping for that divine revelation that comes sometime after. I welcome your thoughts as well.