A few weeks ago, a couple of friends and I were talking
about the usage of “snowflake” as a derogatory term. We decided that it wasn’t
cool to use something so unique in such an unkind way, and that we needed to
take that term back. But to be honest, I haven’t thought much about it since
that day.
However, it’s snowing here today, and it is the most amazingly
beautiful snow I’ve seen in a long time. I’ve spent my quiet time today
watching the beauty that God created. It started with sleet, and then gradually
changed to snow. The sleet was pounding down in a straight path to the earth;
hitting hard at the end and bouncing a couple of times before coming to rest
and melting slowly into nothingness. Meanwhile, the snow floated gently down,
in a meandering path, knowing that it too would come to a rest on the earth as
well. However, instead of melting immediately, the snowflakes begin to lean on
one another. Thus, making a quiet peaceful blanket of snow, covering everything
they came to rest on and supporting those flakes that come later.
That’s when it occurred to me…
Why are we not more like the snowflake? Each is individual.
No two are exactly the same, just like us. A snowflake alone melts into
nonexistence, but when they lean on and support each other, they can bring a
peaceful existence to an otherwise insane world, at least for a short
time. Man cannot stand alone, lest he
melt into nonexistence. God created us to stand together… to support one
another, and love each other. Yet instead of standing together, we race to the
finish line, bouncing off any and everything that stands in our way, not caring
who we harm or what we have to do to win.
We run over each other to finish a race none of us are
competing in.
You guys. We all get to the same finish line. Some of us
will reach it with grace and mercy, having made an impact of support and love.
Others will reach it with terror and anger, having made an impact of neglect
and hate, or icy cool indifference.
Which do you choose?
As for me and my household, we choose God's grace and mercy. We choose love.
We choose to be snowflakes.
