Repentant Snowflakes

While every snow is beautifully unique, the one thing that all snowflakes have in common is that they're dirty at the core.

Snowflakes start as tiny dust particles in the clouds which collect moisture. And as the moisture freezes into crystals which then fall sparkling white to the ground. But that tiny bit of dirt remains at the center of each snowflake.

And so there’s a similarity between us and snowflakes.  Because while each one of us is uniquely and wonderfully made by God in his own image, at our core we are stained with the dirt of sin.

And this Ash Wednesday, each one of us will be marked with a visible reminder of that inner stain in the black ashes we'll wear on our forehead.