His love is in everyday trivial things, but the love contained is not trivial.
I come from a tropical place where it never snows. The hexagonal snowflakes amused my stay at Yale. No single snowflake is repeated -- God made them one by one, beautifully and wondrously.
This made me think of the winter version of Psalm 139:17-18:
How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
If every snowflake carries a thought of God from the sky towards me , and all his thoughts are good and kind , how overwhelming would this love be. There is beauty in every single snowflake contented in our hand, when they added up, it forms the stunning romantic snow globe scenery that content us in it. God’s plan for everyone of us is also like this, it is larger than the summation of countless snowflakes. God’s plan for us is so large that we cannot comprehend it. We humans can only marvel at it.
Yet just as from the heavens
the rain and snow come down
And do not return there
till they have watered the earth,
making it fertile and fruitful,
Giving seed to the one who sows
and bread to the one who eats.
Isaiah 55:10-11
The 12 inches of last snow covering Yale takes days to melt. God has so many good thoughts for us but he never imposes things we cannot bear on us. He knows our limits, how much our hearts can handle, how long it needs for us to understand. “Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.” He waits for the soil of our heart to be ready to absorb the nourishment from His word. God waits for humanity to receive his words, and He can wait for us a life long time.
God ‘s love is patient, gentle, unique, wonderous and abundant like the snowflakes from the sky. And most importantly God's good works provides courage and hope in us that will blossom into the Spring of our lives.
“Above all, trust in the slow work of God….
Only God could say what this new spirit
gradually forming within you will be.”
(Prayer of Teilhard de Chardin)
