Your Like-snow Advantage ...focus on the Great Exchange A message from Steve Lauber, Recruitment Director
One of the reasons I became a teacher was because I love snow days. As a kid, I remember waking up early after a snowfall, hoping that our school would be announced on Fond du Lac’s KFIZ radio station. We kids waited patiently as they read off the schools alphabetically, hoping to hear the following announcement: “St Peter’s Lutheran School, Fond du Lac: No school today.” I don’t know if there was anything better to hear as a kid than that. It meant sledding, snowmen, hot chocolate and no homework. As an adult, I still get very excited for a snow day, sometimes even more than as a kid. Sleeping in, no work, bacon and eggs on the breakfast menu are all in my future. However; there is one thing I actually like more than anything after the first heavy snow of the season. That’s opening the front curtains and looking out my bay window. Overnight, my dirty, muddy, dead lawn has been transformed into a white wonderland with a beautiful blanket of snow. Piles of leaves, sticks and other debris that had been an eyesore, can no longer be seen. It's one of my favorite things to look at.
Psalm 51:7 Wash me with hyssop and I will be clean; wash me and I will be whiter than snow. God reminds us in the Bible that Jesus covered up the sins of all people through his perfect life and death on the cross. Our dirty sins, the ugly debris of our lives, and our dead souls destined for hell have been covered. Thank God for His grace. Through faith in Jesus we have been made cleaner and whiter than any snowfall. Getting a day off school is a nice bonus for being a teacher, but for believers in Jesus, eternal life after we leave this Earth is the greatest gift of all.
Isaiah 1:18 “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.”
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Motivated by the love of Jesus, Lakeside Lutheran High School partners with families to educate, encourage, and equip students for life and for eternity. about our federation
The Lakeside Federation includes 33 congregations in southcentral Wisconsin extending north to south from Beaver Dam to Janesville and east to west from Okauchee to Middleton. The Lakeside Lutheran Advantage is published 3x year, distributed free of charge to students, families, future families and friends. Cover photo, Todd Hackbarth; edits, Kimara Winters Direct correspondence to: 231 Woodland Beach Rd. Lake Mills WI 53551 info@llhs.org • 920.648.2321 Principal: Don Schultz | Exec. Director: Kirk DeNoyer | Asst. Principal: John Dorn | AD: Todd Jahns | Regents, Chair: Glenn Lassanske page 2 • The Lakeside Advantage • 2024 Issue 1
