If Snow Were Sugar

Earlier this year, I was flying up to the arctic. Quite tired from work and jet lag, but mostly from staying up nearly all night reading a book that I was addicted to, I ordered from the flight attendant a cup of tea, with sugar, to wake me up a bit.

The sugar came in a little bag and on it was printed the words, "Imagine if it snowed sugar. It would be like snow but a lot more people would be eating out." It reminded me of those not quite right Asian translations to English, except I wasn't in Asia.

I kept the empty bag of sugar. Can't remember now if it was intentional or if it got used for a bookmark and came home by accident. But by the time it arrived home, I decided to keep it. That trip was magical. Many little miracles happened in a series of unexpected events that to this day are still enchanting.  In some ways, the trip did snow sugar - - it gave me bits of the miraculous.

Tonight, months later, I am up late mixing home made bread dough for sweet rolls. Tomorrow morning, I have to roll out of bed and rise up early to get those rolls rolled out and rising. And another batch of cookie dough waiting. Family in town, with their adorable kids. It has been snowing all day. The streets are pure white, the evergreens are covered in snow. I took my niece to The Nutcracker, with its Sugar Plum Fairy and dancing snowflakes. I came home and saw that someone shovelled my walk, I have no idea who. Today, it does seem the world snows sugar.

Yet I know for everyone it doesn't. The world, packed with billions of people, is jam packed with irreconcilable contrasts. For some it's snowing sugar. For some it's snowing pain. For most of us, the sky rains both upon us.

But this Christmas, I hope for miracles for you, sweetness lightly drifting towards you, like wisps of snow.

Comments

[Ky Woman]

Mayhap, a slight drift of the snow sugar every once in a while, will help keep those days of pain rain in perspective. We can't feel blessed by the sunshine without the rainy days of gray...

Merry Christmas to all!

Faith and Smiles......