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經文：「因為出於神的話，沒有一句不帶能力的。」（路1:37） 位於阿爾卑斯山的頂峰，總有神所創造的美好奇迹；山上覆蓋的厚雪，在白天的陽光和夜間的嚴霜交相作用下，積雪的邊緣結成了冰。而在這一層冰殼之下，竟有花朵完整無恙地綻放出來。 這種花屬於櫻花科，只生長在高山之上。每逢夏季，它舒展葉子平躺在地以飽嚐陽光，將陽光的能量吸收後，再貯藏在根裏過冬。待春天時，各種植物都在蘇醒，積雪下的小花也不例外，發了芽，放出暖氣。而那奇妙的微溫，恰好把頂上的積雪溶成一個個鐘形的小氣罩。 然後小花繼續長高，頭上正戴著那個鐘形小氣罩，直到長好了花苞。最後，鐘形小氣罩的外殼脫落，花瓣直接與陽光接觸，紫紅色的花瓣，晶瑩剔透，葉脈也似雪花，好像還保留著它生長掙扎中所經歷的痕迹。 如此稚嫩的植物，在我們心中所引起的感動，絕非那些長在山坡以下，從溫暖泥土中孕育的花卉所能比擬。我們既樂見那不可能的竟成事實，神當然更是如此。 對於不可能的事，要堅持到底；把所有的困難，毫不懷疑地堆在一起，並且將所能找到的更多困難都疊上去，再用信心傾向祂；因為祂是專門對付一切不可能的神。--選 新譯｜荒漠甘泉讀書會
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Scripture: "For with God nothing shall be impossible" (Luke 1:37). Far up in the Alpine hollows, year by year God works one of His marvels. The snow-patches lie there, frozen with ice at their edge from the strife of sunny days and frosty nights; and through that ice-crust come, unscathed, flowers that bloom. Back in the days of the by-gone summer, the little soldanelle plant spread its leaves wide and flat on the ground, to drink in the sun-rays, and it kept them stored in the root through the winter. Then spring came, and stirred the pulses even below the snow-shroud, and as it sprouted, warmth was given out in such strange measure that it thawed a little dome in the snow above its head. Higher and higher it grew and always above it rose the bell of air, till the flower-bud formed safely within it: and at last the icy covering of the air-bell gave way and let the blossom through into the sunshine, the crystalline texture of its mauve petals sparkling like snow itself as if it bore the traces of the flight through which it had come. And the fragile thing rings an echo in our hearts that none of the jewel-like flowers nestled in the warm turf on the slopes below could waken. We love to see the impossible done. And so does God. Face it out to the end, cast away every shadow of hope on the human side as an absolute hindrance to the Divine, heap up all the difficulties together recklessly, and pile as many more on as you can find; you cannot get beyond the blessed climax of impossibility. Let faith swing out to Him. He is the God of the impossible. --Selected ｜ Mrs. Charles Cowman
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