A news report stated that this winter has broken records for snowfall. This winter in Saskatchewan has had substantially more snow than what has been usual. Who did break the record? The weather forecasters? The recorders of snow accumulations? Or the people of Saskatchewan? I believe that nobody broke the record! Mother nature, she did it! So it does not mean much for us. Having more snow than previous years is also a part of natural cycles. Nature goes on by itself. People are not able to do much about natural cycles. Simply, all we are able to do is to accept nature's cycles and enjoy them.
There are three kinds of law in the world; human made law, natural law and God's law. As we know well, human made laws change from time to time depending on people's needs and demands. Many of them are different from nation to nation, and even from region to region in the same country. Thus, human made laws work out only when people accept them as laws and keep them. Otherwise laws lose their original purpose and become nominal laws, which means they exist in name only and have no power as laws. But unlike a human made law, a natural law always works out and can not be interfered with by any human resistance or power. For example, changing seasons, gravity or human life cycles (birth, growth, suffering and death) are natural laws which no one can alter.
Soon spring will arrive in this fertile land of Saskatchewan. Springs means that all living things, which have been dormant over this long winter, will soon reawaken with life. Sooner or later the whole of nature will be a scenery coloured with its own beauty and prosperity, in order to show off their best shapes and glorify God who has created them. We will also be busy changing our seasonal clothes and planning to do spring activities. Snow birds will come back home and readjust again to the Prairie spring life. The farmers will, especially, be excited to prepare for scattering seeds in the hope of abundant harvests in fall. Indeed spring means a lot, and it changes all things for the better and makes us hopeful. One of precious lessons from natural law is that the mother nature does not gamble.
"You reap what you sow!" Not only is that the truth of the law of nature but it is also the truth in everyone's life. Sometimes, and occasionally, there might be a free lunch, good luck or good fortune in our life journey. But in the long term and in the whole process of one's life, it is always true that we will reap what we sow. St. Paul says, "the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you will always have enough of everything in every good work." (2 Corinthians 9:6-8). Surely it is a time to sow the seed; the seed of grains, the seed of plants and flowers and the seed of good works. What matters most to you and me is that how to sow the good work, reluctantly or abundantly? Someday we all will reap what we sow today.
