SNOWFLAKES: A Winters Tale

It was a cold winters night and a silent blanket of snow was covering the lands. A young Father and his son were in the yard behind their modest and humble home, hand in mitt, they were silhouettes of the night.

The two of them gazing up at the first star of the evening.

A gentle snow was falling and they closed their eyes breathing in this moment.

“Dad, why is there snow?”

And with eyes closed, his sons mitted hand in his, this is what the Father said that night,

“Snow is a reminder of the people in our lives. They are each made from the essence of life, carried through the spirit of our dreams and made manifest in the world we call home.

“Each and every one of them is formed and shaped with their own shimmering beauty. They are then set free into this world, when the proper time arrives, and the currents of their fate sweep them this way and that.

“Unknown are the forces that carry them through their journey to you.

“Some have been tossed about by the strong winds of destiny and struggled hard to be with you. While others find their way to you effortlessly and with ease. Like the snow that’s falling tonight.

“Gently gliding, tenderly falling, finding their place beside and all around you.

“But for most snowflakes, and friends, they have experienced a bit of both. And once they have fallen into your life don’t think it’s by some mere chance that they have come there.

“All you have to do is remember the distance between you and the clouds and think of space they have traveled to meet with you on your journey. How far they have come to share this moment with you.

“And as the snow can bring so many things to a person’s life, more can friendship bring.

“Snow is that small reminder that there are friends with you always, and that they have traveled from far away places and fought much to be with you.

“And as most of our days are spent being busy attending to the matter of things, we are lucky enough, from time to time, to have a moment like now. Where we can stop and think of friends, look to them, and love them each for their unique beauty and magic that they bring to your life.

“Remember, as with snow, so to is it with friends, that in their own time and season they will melt away to unveil new beauty within you and your world.

“Know in these instances, in those brief moments, you are one with them all and they’ve melted into the very essence of your heart.”

And his son, proud that his father was so wise, felt a little warmer inside.

And with his fathers’ mitted hand in his, they went back to gazing at the first star of the night.

A gentle snow was falling and they closed their eyes breathing in this moment.

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