When winter approaches and the first snow falls, it is met at the ground with heat and a quick dissolution - no snowflake lasts on the ground, each of them immediately becomes part of the small puddles that easily drain away. It would seem that the weak, gentle snow tries again and again to cover the ground, but it just finds itself melting. Sometimes it snows for a whole day, and not a flake remains on the ground.
But snow is persistent. It fails for days, weeks, a whole month maybe, but it keeps falling. And then one day, the world changes color. Falling snow no longer meets the unwelcoming ground, but a surely thickening layer of its brethren spread on the entire landscape.
Snow begins weakly, and fails plenty of times, but it persists, and keeps at it, and one day it simply breaks through, and its efforts no longer dissolve, but produce the widespread effect it aimed for.
I think we can learn from that.
A man may hammer a stone 99 times and fail to break it, and split it open on the 100th blow. That one hammer blow may have broken the stone, but not without the previous 99.
(Update, March 8th 2012: Spring's pretty much here already, and snow failed to cover Pittsburgh completely. It sure tried, especially last Sunday when a snowstorm was sneezing all through the day. But I think this wasn't its best winter).
But snow is persistent. It fails for days, weeks, a whole month maybe, but it keeps falling. And then one day, the world changes color. Falling snow no longer meets the unwelcoming ground, but a surely thickening layer of its brethren spread on the entire landscape.
Snow begins weakly, and fails plenty of times, but it persists, and keeps at it, and one day it simply breaks through, and its efforts no longer dissolve, but produce the widespread effect it aimed for.
I think we can learn from that.
A man may hammer a stone 99 times and fail to break it, and split it open on the 100th blow. That one hammer blow may have broken the stone, but not without the previous 99.
(Update, March 8th 2012: Spring's pretty much here already, and snow failed to cover Pittsburgh completely. It sure tried, especially last Sunday when a snowstorm was sneezing all through the day. But I think this wasn't its best winter).
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