Snow bunnies and the like...

Funny how little Snow Bunnies form (For all my warm climate friends, these are the cold equivalent to dust bunnies)...

One single snowflake drifts its way so peacefully across the sky, and tries to land safely on earth. Any slight breeze or wind gust though, and the snowflake only skids across the already-fallen snow. One snowflake's flawless crystal catches hold of another snowflake, and off they fly together. The next several landing attempts result in added snowflakes as well,until it is too heavy for flight. Now, it drifts and rolls along, gathering snow as it goes, till finally a loosely packed "Snow Bunny" is born. Up north, this is what kids find to start snowballs with. So now, in the hand of some excited snow-crazy kid, our Snow Bunny increases rapidly in size, and the outcome of growth is really unpredictable. If our Snow Bunny/snowball escapes from the kid and rolls downhill, growth could be astronomical! Or, if the kid is like 2 or something, and inexperienced in the fine art of snowball making, then it may not grow much at all...

So it is with our lives as Christians. A possibility, an opportunity comes our way. A desire is placed upon our heart. The Holy Spirit moves us to and fro, and we (as Christians) need to be open to His direction in our lives. We can experience such
EXPONENTIAL GROWTH, and feel so strongly God's presence in our lives-- or we can brush Him off, and reduce His prodding to "just a notion", resulting in a shrinking relationship...

The crazy thing is the free will aspect... What will we each choose to do with our lives? How much of ourselves will we just turn over to God to do with as He desires? This has been on my mind for almost a full year now.

I share this with you now because yesterday, one single snowflake fell...