Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

      It's only October, but already in the past week there has already been some snow. Most people like snow and get really excited when the first snow falls, but have you ever taken the time to think about those flakes that fall from the sky? Snowflakes. They're those little pieces of cold, fluffy, frozen water falling from the sky. It's kind of cool and all, snow. It isn't rain, or sleet, or freezing rain, or anything else. It's just snow.

Each piece of snow was formed individually, no two are alike. 

All snow falls from its highly placed position. 

Every flake of snow is delicate. If you step on it, its purpose and make-up changed. 

Snowflakes do not usually travel by themselves. Rarely, if ever, do you only see just a single snowflake. It usually tends to fall in the hundreds and thousands and so forth. It clumps together and falls as one. 

Snowflakes are cold and have an edge to them, but in the end they usually melt. 

     Now, you're probably wondering why I just listed off some qualities and facts of snowflakes, right? Well, look back up and instead of thinking that the facts are about snow, think that they are about people. They all work. 

Each [person] was formed individually, no two are alike.

All [people] fall from its highly placed position. 

Every [person] is delicate. If you step on it, its purpose and make-up changed. 

[People] do not usually travel by themselves. Rarely, if ever, do you only see just a single snowflake. It usually tends to fall in the hundreds and thousands and so forth. It clumps together and falls as one. 

[People] are cold and have an edge to them, but in the end they usually melt. 

      Wow, right? I feel like all of these can be taken in different ways, so I'll explain a little deeper.

Each person/piece of snow was formed individually, no two are alike.

    This one is probably pretty straight forward. No two snowflakes are exactly the same, nor are two people. Not even identical twins are exactly the same. Yes, appearance and even DNA can be the same, but they are not the same people and they are individuals. Therefore, because each person and each snowflake is formed individually, people are like snowflakes in this essence. 

All people/snow fall(s) from its highly placed position. 
     This is not as literal as the previous one. Snow literally does fall from its highly placed position up in the clouds while we, as humans, fall from a different highly place position. We are sons and daughters of the King of Kings, and although there is no way we can "un-be" His children, we can mess up. Before we were even thought of we were loved and there is no way to undo that. It's that powerful. No matter how much we mess up, or how far we fall down from where He put us, we are His.

Every person/snowflake is delicate. If you step on it, its purpose and make-up changed. 
     Most of us have heard that snowflakes are delicate, and many of us have tried to capture one. How well does that work? It really doesn't and that is because snowflakes are delicate, just like people. If you crush them they are changed. For snow it's pretty simple, don't physically crush them. But, for people it's different. We are changed by physical, mental, and spiritual changes. All of these things make is who we are.

People/snowflakes do not usually travel by themselves. Rarely, if ever, do you only see just a single snowflake. It usually tends to fall in the hundreds and thousands and so forth. It clumps together and falls as one. 
     We are not meant to be alone. We rarely see someone completely alone, seeing as in order to see them we are there too. We are meant to serve God and love one another, and it would be pretty hard to love one another if we had never met another person.
We tend to help each other out. We pick each other up, we work together, and we fall together. It's just what we do.

People/snowflakes are cold and have an edge to them, but in the end they usually melt. 

     This is not something that is a fact, as much as it is an opinion. People, though kind and caring, can be cold. We put up a wall that blocks who we really are from the world and we tend to keep it to ourselves, thereby making us seem like we are cold. Along with making us seem cold, it makes us seem like we are on edge. But, like snow, most people "melt" in the end. This being said, the right conditions have to be there. Snow doesn't melt if it's 10º outside. 

     When I picture snow, I see it as clean and white. When I see it fall from the sky it has a shimmer in the way that dances from left to right. When I see snow, I can picture how much we can be compared to snow.
We can be made as white as snow.
As Christians we are to be the light of the world (Matthew 5:14-16), and if something as little as snow can reflect light, why can't we?
Snow even dances from right to left as falling down from the clouds to the earth. What do we dance for?

     Sometimes we just need to take the time to look at all that He has created. Snowflakes are a lot more similar to people then I had previously thought. But I guess in some ways, maybe we are like God's snowflakes

Job 37:14 "Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God's wonders."