Snowflakes of Service

Service has so many forms. People serve for so many different reasons. Some service is small and seems less significant, but other service brings multiple people together in large organized projects. To some degree, service is like snowflakes.

Each snowflake is unique and different from all the rest. Flakes are so small that you can't see their beauty until you examine them closely. They can seem insignificant. But most flakes that you see are not the small individual flakes. Many are large clumps of connected flakes falling together until they reach their destination. Each individual unique flake has its own beauty, but when millions are joined together, they make everything white. When snow accumulates, it can't go unnoticed.

Acts of service and snowflakes are unique as well as similar. Each one is beautiful, and the combination of many is also beautiful. But snow and service can also be dangerous if they fall in the wrong places at the wrong time. Just because the world needs service just as it need's snow, we need to be mindful of our reasons of serving and whether it will help more than hurt.