Snow.
Love it or hate it. Not many us are indifferent.
I cheer for the “love it” team. Granted, I do not have to work in it or travel in it. Beside a warm fire, wearing cozy socks and sipping hot coffee, its quiet beauty comforts me.
As a child, snow meant a rare day out of school. Today, it means something quite different.
Kindness.
One tiny flake is unlikely to affect the appearance of the world. One tiny action may not alter a life. Yet both begin imperceptible changes.
Enough of the tiny flakes and the world is transformed. Each tree branch emerges from a blur of browns and greys to glisten in delicate outline.
Can enough kindness—small and unheralded or boasted and broadcast—transform the world? No. Only Jesus Christ can do that but we are called to love each other and kindness is a good place to start.
Imagine the difference if, as snow blankets the earth, we blanketed our world with “kindness flakes”. (Does that sound like a cereal?)
Next time you see snow, remember to be a kindness flake!!!!
