A hike on St Mary’s glacier. A seemingly insignificant flower, a magnificent moment for me. Twenty years later, I remember what the Creator taught me with the visual aid of that tiny bloom.
It was early April, and the tundra of the Rockies was bleak and barren, or so I thought. We plodded on, and as the rest of my group walked by, it caught my eye. A very tiny, very solitary bloom, barely peeping out of the tundra.
It was bright white, which is what caught my attention at first. The contrast between the ground and this bloom could not have been greater. I stopped, I stooped down, I marveled. Inside of each of its leaves was a dark blue streak, not wider than a hair’s breadth.
I can still feel the sense of awe, of amazement. What would cause the Creator to stoop down and grace this bloom with such a miniature stroke of magnificent blue? This stroke would not be visible unless you physically zoomed in to view it.
There are times like this when the Spirit reveals Himself to us, and we see His handiwork; we see the evidence of a divine creation and a Creator. I like to call it “show and tell.” The thing is, we must be willing to allow ourselves to see and to listen. Paul calls this “Setting our minds on things above” (Col 3:2).
What if we walked through life noticing Divinity – not just in nature, but in the eyes of the person ahead of you in the grocery store? It’s visible in the reflection you see in the mirror. What if we sought to be amazed by the truth of Colossians 1:16? “All things have been created through Him and for Him.”
~ Susan Kewin
Christ Fellowship