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 flower blooms unblemished through the crust of ice near the edge of the snow. How does this little flower, the soldanelle plant, accomplish such a feat?
During the past summer, the little plant spread 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 Procter, 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 forth into the sunshine. The crystalline texture of it mauve-coloured 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 the impossible things accomplished!
And so does God. For indeed, ‘Nothing is impossible with God’.
