My family and I are enduring the winter storm of 2009.  A foot of snow over a two day period.  I am not one of these people who have some romantic relationship with the white stuff. Quite the opposite.  I hate the cold, the ice, the snow, and anything relating to these three things.  I hate that I have to spend half an hour bundling my kids up to go outside and play, only to return to the warm haven of our home after 20 minutes of play, crying, and falling down.  All of you who “cannot wait” for snow can have this crap.  I will take Scottsdale, Arizona thank you very much.

But, in all this maddening time stuck inside, blinded by the white sheet reflectors that lay all over the ground,  I have time to reflect, think and meditate.  Or maybe it is called losing your sanity…

We all have times when we wish we knew God had us in His hand.  That He was with us, guiding our future and had our best interest at heart.  There are times when all of us think He is absent, gone, or worse, punishing us.  Surly a loving God would not leave us stranded to go along in this world alone.  No, He would not.  He takes care of us even when we cannot see or feel Him.

It is similar to a snowflake.  If you just look at it with the naked eye it appears to be simply a small, round, fluffy ice falling to the ground.  One piles an other and all we (or I) see is the obstacles all these flakes cause in our lives. I have to shovel, scrape, and weeze my way to the mailbox.  Driving is difficult.  It makes even the most mundane exercise a challenge.

But, under a microscope you see just how much God has control of the situation.  Those mountains and mounds of snow piled in the bank parking lot are created by millions of tiny snow flakes.  Flakes, that when seen under a microscope, are intricate, detailed, unique and most of all, beautiful.  More importantly, they are obviously planned, created, and formed.

If He can have control over the smallest detail such as the design of a snowflake crystal and make it look so perfect time after time after time, why then, do we doubt that he has ultimate control, power and only the best in mind for our lives?  Something so intricate that only HE could create.  He can form us and our lives into something equally beautiful.

He’s got this…..