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God's Mountain of Blessings


 "I waited patiently for the Lord;
he turned to me and heard my cry.
He lifted me out of the slimy pit
out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand."
(from Psalm 40)

Wilson Bentley, also known as Snowflake Bentley, a farmer, American meteorologist, photographer, was the first known person capturing and documenting detailed snowflake photographs.

With his camera he developed a method to photograph snowflakes on black velvet before they melted, discovering that each one has a distinct shape.

A major scientific contribution of his time was the theory that no two snowflakes were identical.

Reflecting on the belief of God as Creator leads me to meditate on the snowflake as a blessing of God’s creation.


Looking at a huge, plowed heap of snow at my driveway’s end, I can either see a pile of snow or a mountain of God’s blessings.

With continuing media coverage of violence, I feel like I’m in the “slimy pit with mud and mire.” described at the beginning of Psalm 40.

So, like the Psalm, “I am waiting patiently for the Lord; knowing he will turn to me and hear my cry.
    he turned to me and heard my cry. “

Amid violence, God's hope surrounds us with blessings, much like snow in my driveway’s end strengthening and encouraging us.

God’s hope and love Psalm 40 and in the mountain of snow is a reminder that God constantly surrounding us and as Psalm 40 concludes:

He set our feet on a rock
    and gave us a firm place to stand.

In the thick of discouraging media images of violence, there’ the mountain of hope in a driveway’s pile of God’s blessings.




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