To some, being described as a “snowflake” is insulting. Not to Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship congregants.

We’re awed that each individual snowflake is architecturally distinct from its companions, yet all are kindred to each other.

Each snowflake is fascinating in its own light, while it Illuminates the profound universal principles from which all arise.

A snowflake is small and fleeting. Yet each is part of a vast and ancient continuity to which it belongs and contributes.

Our human spirit is like the Earth’s water in all its forms–rising as vapor into the clouds, falling as snowflakes into the mountains, melting and running through rivers into the sea. Water as liquid emphasizes our unity, the solid snowflake our individuality, and the vapor our capacity for renewal and transformation.

Each snowflake has a deep history. Science tells us that the hydrogen atoms in each water molecule date back to the first few seconds after the universe’s birth. The oxygen atoms were forged in the heart of ancient stars.

Snowflakes make a difference. Chaos theory posits that the path of each snowflake’s forming, falling, landing, and melting creates an imperceptible effect on what comes next in the world.

Snowflakes are remarkable. They reflect our spiritual hunger for individual meaning and our connection to processes vast and timeless.
In a sense, we are all snowflakes, all of us. Magnificent.

January 12. 2024