Scripture reading for today: Acts 8 – 9; Psalm 109
This morning I’m reading the paper, and there’s an article in The Richmond Times-Dispatch on snowflakes. One thought comes to my mind: this is a God thing. So let me tell you what I learned about snowflakes.
- Everyone knows that each snowflake is different. But did you know that all snowflakes (snow crystals in the form of plates, stars, columns, needles, barely visible prisms, triangular crystals, capped columns and even large fern-like dendrites) are based on a symmetrical six-sided figure? Snowflakes are mathematical.
- Experts say that a snowflake is highly intricate and has beautiful symmetry – even a teeny, tiny snow crystal has perfect symmetry.
- Did you know that snowflakes start out as a dust particle?
- Did you know a million droplets must evaporate to provide the water vapor for a single large snow crystal?
- Did you know that many factors determine how a snowflake turns out? Things like the size of the dust particle, humidity levels, wind in the cloud, amount of water vapor the cloud holds, temperature, speed the flake falls all affect the snow crystal product.
- Did you know that our snow machines can only produce bubbles of irregular round balls of ice with none of the delicate beauty of a God-made snowflake? Man can’t make snow.
God is mighty and mysterious; creative and caring; powerful and playful. He is the kind of God who takes time to make a snowflake.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth…God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. Genesis 1:1, 31 The Message