I can't tell you how many times I've heard that "every snowflake is unique" or some variation of that phrase. In school when you make those paper cut out snowflakes, it is guaranteed that even though we are all different...they end up looking pretty similar. So I guess it never really struck a chord with me that each snowflake really is different.
That is, until the other day at the beach. This little snowflake landed on my leg and as I was zooming in to take a picture of it, that phrase came to mind.
It is pretty amazing that every snowflake is different. Do you know how many snowflakes there are?! Millions. Perhaps billions? I don't even know. But if every snowflake in the 6-12 inches (or more!) of snow we can get in just one day is different... that's a lot of unique snowflakes.
But God designed each and every one of us all to be different. I don't know about you, but that just amazes me. How our God can be so creative and powerful that after creating 7 billion people (is that what we are up to now? I don't even know...) He still had the time and energy to create 7 billion different beautiful snowflakes. Mind blowing.
And I guess what I am ultimately trying to get at, is that being different is good. People today forget to embrace their individuality and get so caught up in 'keeping up with the Joneses' that we forget that we were each made to different. To be unique.
I know that is something I struggle with anyways. In my New Years goals I mentioned that I am working on being content with where I am at in life. I often find myself comparing myself to high school friends and acquaintances and feeling like I don't stack up to them at all. Sometimes I feel like I have wasted my life. I chose to stop going to college after 2 years, and now I regret that. I know that I had much more potential than that, and maybe I still do, but things are different now and I feel like the last 5 years have been wasted.
I know that is not true. So many good things have come out of the jobs I have worked instead of continuing in school and maybe ending up somewhere completely different. I made an impact on people and inspired people to change. I've met people who I now can see came into my life at the exact right time, and I came into theirs at the exact right time to help each other through things. To learn and grow and support each other.
Thinking about each individual snowflake being uniquely created in God's image, made me remember that I too was created uniquely in God's image, and for His purpose. He has brought me where I am today, and I am where I am because it is exactly where He wants me to be. This is something that I need to continue to tell myself while I continue on my journey to being fearless.
This verse comes to mind, one of my favorites:
Okay that's enough rambling for one night. Just wanted to share my heart a little bit.
One last thing to leave you with, a song that I kept humming while admiring my little snowflake friend and watching the beauty of a sunset over the water.
Indescribable
Chris Tomlin
Creation's revealing Your majesty
From the colors of fall to the fragrance of spring
Every creature unique in the song that it sings
All exclaiming
Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God
All powerful, untameable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God
Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go
Or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow
Who imagined the sun and gives source to it's light
Yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night
None can fathom
Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name
You are amazing God
All powerful, untameable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God
You are amazing God
Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God
All powerful, untameable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God
Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God
Incomparable, unchangeable
You see the depths of my heart and You love me the same
You are amazing God
You are amazing God
Oh,Stephanie,you are unique--and special.And I think you are where God wants you to be and doing what God wants you to do. Not finishing college has nothing to do with who you are--so you'd have a degree--would that make you different? I don't think so. find your worth in Him--He is all that matters!
ReplyDeleteI love that song~~"awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim...You are amazing God...." that kept going thru my mind as we rode around in Colorado this past fall--He IS amazing!!
Love you,mom
This is a wonderful, inspiring post! Thank you so much for sharing what is in your heart! You are definitely where you are meant to be. I often feel the same way, doubting the last few years as not toward a specific goal or purpose. But I think and realize that there were lessons to learn, and more importantly, people to know and be changed by, and vice versa. :) I love that verse too, very cool. Keep sharing your deep thoughts! And taking wonderful photographs (that zoom is amazing, wow).
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