One of the most beautiful winter scenes is an open field with a fresh blanket of snow on a clear, cold, calm day. The snow covers all the bumps, lumps, and trash in the field giving it a pure white cover. It looks like a uniform blanket seamless from one end of the field to the other except for the crystals that sparkle like diamonds in the sun or even under a full moon. And yet that blanket is made up of millions if not billions of individual snowflakes each one of which is unique.
The book “The Snowflake: Winter’s Secret Beauty” is filled with Patricia Rasmussen’s amazing micro-photography of this fleeting beauty. The text is by author Kenneth Libbrecht who wrote “A snowflake is a temporary work of art…… no two snowflakes look exactly alike when they fall.” The book is a beauty, but the snowflakes themselves are even more beautiful to behold.
Like the snowflakes, God has made each one of us as a unique individual to grace this earth for just a short time. Psalm 139:14 says “I praise you [O Lord], for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know full well.” Just like the snowflakes, no two people are the same. God must love diversity because he made each person different from the others: red, yellow, black, brown or white; tall, short or average; blondes, redheads, black hair, or yes, even gray; and most delightful of all, male or female. Some of us are musical, others athletic, some are math whizzes, and others are poetic. People are all different, and yet each one can claim Psalm 139:14 “I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” You are a precious creation of the Creator.
One of the most delightful songs of the 20th century was sung by the great guttural voice of Louis Armstrong. Along with Psalm 118:24 (“This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it”) it is a good thought with which to start each day:
I see trees of green........ red roses too
I see em bloom..... for me and for you
And I think to myself.... what a wonderful world.
I see skies of blue..... clouds of white
Bright blessed days....dark sacred nights
And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world.
The colors of a rainbow.....so pretty ..in the sky
Are also on the faces.....of people ..going by
I see friends shaking hands.....sayin.. how do you do
They're really sayin......I love you.
I hear babies cry...... I watch them grow
They'll learn much more.....than I'll never know
And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself .......what a wonderful world.
© MEMORY LANE MUSIC GROUP,
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