High in the snow-covered Alpine valleys, God works one of
His miracles year after year. In spite of the extremes of sunny days and frozen
nights, a very beautiful flower blooms unblemished through the crust of ice
near the edge of the snow. How does this little flower, known as the soldanelle
plant, accomplish such a feat?
During the past summer this little plant spreads its leaves
wide and flat on the ground in order to soak up the sun’s rays, and it kept
that energy stored in its roots throughout the winter. When spring came, life
stirred even beneath its shroud of snow, and as the plant sprouted, it
amazingly produced enough warmth to thaw a small dome-shaped pocket of snow
above its head.
It grew higher and higher, and as it did, the small dome of
air continued to rise just above its head until its flower bud was safely
formed. At last the icy covering of the air compartment gave way, and the
blossom burst into the sunshine. The crystalline texture of its mauve-colored
petals sparkled like the snow itself, as if it still bore the marks of the
journey it had endured.
This fragile flower sounds an echo in our hearts that none of the lovely flowers nestled in the warm grass of the lower slopes could ever awaken. Oh, how we love to see impossible things accomplished! And so does God!
Therefore may we continue to persevere, for even if we took
circumstances and cast all the darkness of human doubt upon them and then
hastily piled as many difficulties together as we could find against God’s
divine work, we could never move beyond the blessedness of His miracle-working
power. May we place our faith completely in Him, for He is the God of the
impossible!
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| The Soldanelle Plant |
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