beautiful white on black..

My message tone rings. I stop wrting the term reports and look up from my laptop to see that its already 2:30am. Who would message me at this time of night? I hope its not spam…Fumbling around in my bag, I find my phone and flip it open. Yo, Look outside. It was a very brief message from Tommy….what could it be? maybe there’s an accident??? But then, Tommy doesn’t live near my apartment…I wonder what it is…With one eyebrow raised and a question in mind, I get up and walk to my window and peer out. Didn’t really see anything and then…Oh gosh! maybe it’s snowing!!!! I frantically push back the blinds and swing my window open and held my breath in anticipation.

A blast of cold air hits me in the face. Wow…it’s freezing out here… And there it was. The tiny white flecks. Jumping left and right as if dodgeing some imaginary obstacles, on a race to the ground. It’s so beautiful…I stand there gazing out towards the sky, mesmerized by the serenity of the moment.

No wonder Summer told me that Autumn and Winter are the seasons of love….As I stand there with the window wide open, I momentarily forgot the cold. I forgot about the silly term reports that we have to write and send home to parents who couldn’t read English anyway. I forgot how far away from home I was. I forgot the distance between me and him. I forgot about everything….

And then I smiled.

For the past few days I have been feeling slight homesick and somewhat down. But looking at the white snow glittering against the black night, I felt okay again. I was fascinated, in awe of God’s work. How can all of this come from some coincidental clash or the so-called Big Bang Theory? Even the name annoys me..how can it be a theory if there was no observed phenomenon to explain in the first place? It’s more a proposal, or a hypothesis. Actually, not even, because it can’t be proven, so it’s not really a hypothesis either…..anyways, my thoughts are drifting. I think it’s time to sleep.

I close the window. But I couldn’t bear to walk away from such beauty and so I pushed open the window again.

One more look…


"God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding. He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ …So that all men he has made may know his work, he stops every man from his labor and fills them with awe." - Job 37:5-7