Years ago, this webpage author used to mindlessly utter (along with most everyone else) the Christmastime lyrics of Sammy Cahn: "Let it snow....let it snow.....let it snow.".

In later years, as I grew into more spiritual maturity, I reconsidered what I had been nonchelantly chanting throughout previous yuletimes, and began to seriously question the implications of the wording of that catchy tune.

"Let it snow?" What had I been saying? Had I (or anyone else who had mouthed those semantics) had the Divine power to "let" it snow? What could I or anyone else have done about it to cause it to snow, or not snow? I have heard of seeding clouds with silver iodide crystals, and the somewhat-secret H.A.R.P. weather-modification project of the government. But, come on now: WHAT can any human being do to cause it to snow, or not snow?

When we had been voicing those song lyrics, had we presumed (not assumed) that we ourselves were taking the place of Christ the Creator who shockingly stated?:

Mr 4:39 And he awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

If so, why not continue to play God and claim power over more than snow?:

Ex 9:18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause very heavy hail to fall, such as never has been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

Ps 89:11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine; the world and all that is in it, thou hast founded them.

Pr 3:19 The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens

Isa 44:24 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: "I am the LORD, who made all things, who stretched out the heavens alone, who spread out the earth--Who was with me?

Zec 12:1 An Oracle The word of the LORD concerning Israel: Thus says the LORD, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:

Heb 1:10 And, "Thou, Lord (i.e. Son of God), didst found the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of thy hands;

Jas 5:17 Elijah was a man of like nature with ourselves and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.

Job chapter 38 reminds us that God has and continues to do what no human has, does, nor can do (not merely in letting it snow or not snow):

4 "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
5 Who determined its measurements--surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?
6 On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone,
7 when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 "Or who shut in the sea with doors, when it burst forth from the womb;
9 when I made clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,
10 and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors,
11 and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed'?
12 "Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,
13 that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?
14 It is changed like clay under the seal, and it is dyed like a garment.
15 From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken.
16 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
18 Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.
19 "Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness,
20 that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home?
21 You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
22 "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
23 which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?
24 What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?
25 "Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain, and a way for the thunderbolt,
26 to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man;
27 to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground put forth grass?
28 "Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven?
30 The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
31 "Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion?
32 Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children?
33 Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?
34 "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you?
35 Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, 'Here we are'?
36 Who has put wisdom in the clouds, or given understanding to the mists?

Perhaps, when it is sung, those who sing "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow" are begging God the Creator to let it snow. But ARE they actually praying to the Lord to let it snow?

There is another problem with the wording.

Use of the word let in "let it snow" implies that God the Creator is a subordinate manager of a Force Of Snowmaking Beyond Him Which Wants To Snow Of Its Own Accord, which He might or might not be able or willing to control. It is as if Snowing Itself is a Pre-Existing Power Of And From Itself which, perhaps, can be let loose or instead restrained.

In any case, the nonsensical "Let It Snow" words of Sammy Cahn SUCK.

It would be better to petition the Creator Christ: 'HAVE it snow, HAVE it snow, HAVE it snow'.

When we further contemplate what exactly is going on with God the Creator doing and able to do what we pathetically-infinitesmal human lifeforms obviously have not done, are not doing, and cannot do ourselves, we see further applications.

For example, when it comes to bodily healing, none of us - in reality and actuality - can "courageous win a battle" against cancer or any other disease. The Lord has built in a sort of resurrection power internally into all of us, and when we get sick, His healing goes into action whether we want it or not. We cannot alter its coming, its presence, its timing, its progress, its duration, its completion, nor its restorative effects. We cannot start it ourselves, nor end it ourselves. It does its own thing, when it wants to, how it wants to.....and God made it that way.

It appears that for every symptom that artificial medicines apparently cure or at least seemingly alleviate, after-effect side-effects are numerous and consequential. [Abusive] surgery leaves scars, causing more difficulties later on. Cold remedies (which wrongly are attributed for restoring health) simply mask symptoms and prolong recuperation. DNA genetic coding is subtly and overtly maligned by artificial chemical/medicinal "treatments," some of which are manifested in birth defects, miscarriage, plus pregnancy and birth-delivery complications. There is nothing like the body's own production of its own anti-bacterial and anti-viral combatants....which is something only The Divine Healer can take credit and be thanked for.

So why do people die from disease, foolish accidents, and old age? Is God to blame for infectious bacteria, viruses, genetic disorders and dysfunction, dying, and death? Can the Lord, the Healer, be faulted for such devastation and misery?

Do YOU ever abuse your body, in various ways? Does ANYONE ELSE ever abuse your body? Is my body ever abused, by myself or others? Do we always take good care of that temple of the Holy Spirit within us? Have we any addictive or immoral vices? Have we always gotten to bed on time....or instead deprived ourselves of needed rest and sleep - for whatever suspicious purpose? Have we always eaten clean and nutritious food and drunken clean and nutritious drink...or instead consumed pesticided, fattening, and diet-drink crap along with all sorts of carcenogenic additives? Have we always breathed in clean fresh air....or instead industrially and automotively-polluted gases laden with cancer-causing radioactive fallout finally setting to Earth years later after the atmospheric atomic-bomb testings of the last half of the 20th century?

Do we resist God's healing power? Impatiently or greedily go to work and spread around contagious germs when we should be sensitive to our bodily needs to quarantined rest and TV-postponing sleep? Did we submissively accept and accomodate to the signals our bodies are sending us? Do we patiently let the Lord's healing take effect and take its own course? Or instead ignore and override it by defiantly and belligerantly killing ourselves suicidally, whether promptly or gradually? Scripture references are enlightening:

Ge 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."

Ge 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.

Ge 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Ge 21:19 Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink.

Ge 24:17 Then the servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a little water to drink from your jar."

Ge 43:11 Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down to the man a present, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

Ex 7:24 And all the Egyptians dug round about the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.

Ex 12:8 They shall eat the flesh [of the lamb] that night, roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Ex 12:9 Do not eat any of it [the passover lamb] raw or boiled with water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.

Ex 12:20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread."

Ex 15:26 saying, "If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give heed to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you which I put upon the Egyptians; for I am the LORD, your healer."

Ex 16:31 Now the house of Israel called its name manna; it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

Ex 17:2 Therefore the people found fault with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you find fault with me? Why do you put the LORD to the proof?"

Le 15:16 "And if a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water, and be unclean until the evening.
Le 15:17 And every garment and every skin on which the semen comes shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
Le 15:18 If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
Le 15:21 And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
Le 15:22 And whoever touches anything upon which she sits shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening

Le 17:12 Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.

Nu 5:27 And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has acted unfaithfully against her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall become an execration among her people.

Nu 20:5 And why have you made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; and there is no water to drink."

De 8:8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,

Jud 15:19 And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and there came water from it; and when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called Enhakkore; it is at Lehi to this day.

1Sa 14:29 Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land; see how my eyes have become bright, because I tasted a little of this honey.

1Sa 30:11 They found an Egyptian in the open country, and brought him to David; and they gave him bread and he ate, they gave him water to drink,
1Sa 30:12 and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten, his spirit revived; for he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.

2Sa 16:2 And the king said to Ziba, "Why have you brought these?" Ziba answered, "The asses are for the king's household to ride on, the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for those who faint in the wilderness to drink."

2Sa 17:29 honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat; for they said, "The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness."

1Ki 14:3 Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him; he will tell you what shall happen to the child."

Ne 9:15 Thou didst give them bread from heaven for their hunger and bring forth water for them from the rock for their thirst, and thou didst tell them to go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
Ne 9:20 Thou gavest thy good Spirit to instruct them, and didst not withhold thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

Job 2:7 So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and afflicted Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

Job 11:18 And you will have confidence, because there is hope; you will be protected and take your rest in safety.

Job 34:33 Will he then make requital to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.

Ps 103:3 who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,

Ps 116:7 Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.

Ps 121:4 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

Pr 3:8 It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.

Pr 3:24 If you sit down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.

Pr 4:22 For they are life to him who finds them, and healing to all his flesh.

Pr 6:15 therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.

Pr 12:18 There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Pr 13:17 A bad messenger plunges men into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.

Pr 20:13 Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

Pr 23:20 Be not among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;

Pr 24:13 My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
Pr 25:16 If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you be sated with it and vomit it.
Pr 25:27 It is not good to eat much honey, so be sparing of complimentary words.

Pr 29:1 He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

Ec 5:12 Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much; but the surfeit of the rich will not let him sleep.

Ec 10:19 Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.

Ec 11:10 Remove vexation from your mind, and put away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Isa 14:3 When the LORD has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve,

Isa 26:18 we were with child, we writhed, we have as it were brought forth wind. We have wrought no deliverance in the earth, and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.

Isa 30:15 For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." And you would not

Jer 6:16 Thus says the LORD: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'

Jer 30:13 There is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you.

Jer 33:6 Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.

Jer 46:11 Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you.

Da 1:12 "Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.

Mic 2:10 Arise and go, for this is no place to rest; because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.

Mal 4:2 But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go forth leaping like calves from the stall.

Mt 4:23 And he went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people.

Mt 6:27 And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life?

Mt 6:34 "Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Mt 9:35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every infirmity.

Mt 11:28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Mt 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Mt 13:33 He told them another parable. "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened."

Mt 15:17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and so passes on?

Lu 9:6 And they departed and went through the villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.

Lu 9:11 When the crowds learned it, they followed him; and he welcomed them and spoke to them of the kingdom of God, and cured those who had need of healing.

Mr 5:26 and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.

Mr 5:43 And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.

Lu 12:25 And which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his span of life?
Lu 12:26 If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest?

Lu 13:21 It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened."

Joh 2:10 and said to him, "Every man serves the good wine first; and when men have drunk freely, then the poor wine; but you have kept the good wine until now."

Ac 7:51 "You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

Ac 9:34 And Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed." And immediately he rose.

Ac 10:38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Ro 14:2 One believes he may eat anything, while the weak man eats only vegetables.

1Ti 5:23 No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

Heb 3:18 And to whom did he swear that they should never enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

Heb 4:1 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any of you be judged to have failed to reach it.

Heb 4:3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Heb 4:9 So then, there remains a sabbath rest for the people of God;
Heb 4:11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, that no one fall by the same sort of disobedience.

Jas 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Jas 4:10 Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.

1Pe 5:6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that in due time he may exalt you.

1Pe 5:7 Cast all your anxieties on him, for he cares about you.