We are a family of nine. We left our homeland to sojourn in the Middle East. Through the prophetic scriptures, we have discovered an end-days calling for the protection of a remnant during the tribulation. In this publication, we teach and share about our walks of faith.
When our family moved to the Middle East, I was three years old. Living in a hot, desert city, the temperatures never dropped below 70 °F during the day. The highs sometimes reached 120°F.
Escaping the heat, we moved to a small town a couple of hours north from there. The weather was much cooler. We experienced four distinct seasons—not summer, summer, summer, and summer.🙂
The first year in our new home, it snowed almost 2 inches!😃 That was a lot for a person who never saw snow in his life. I made my first snowman, and my only snowman, to this day. 😭
Since then, with 4 more winters (this being the fourth), there has been a little snow. Some flurries here and there, occasionally there is enough for a few snowballs.
I get very excited when I see snow, whether it is some flurries that quickly turn to rain, or even better, some accumulation for some snowballs to throw at my siblings.🙂
❄Fun Facts About Snowflakes❄
I love looking up in the sky and staring at the snowflakes falling. Sometimes, I catch them on my tongue.😋❄
Snowflakes are just amazing—from the size to the design of them.
Believe it of not, the largest snowflake ever to be recorded in 1887, was 15 inches wide and 8 inches tall. The smallest to be recorded was 0.001 millimeters or 1 micrometer in diameter.❄
Snowflakes form when water molecules combine and create a hexagonal shape with six sides. They are actually not white; they are clear. Because of the way light bounces off the crystals, snowflakes appear white.
Approximately one septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) snowflakes fall each year!🌨️☃️
Snowflakes travel at a measly 1 to 4 mph. Causing them to take about an hour to hit the ground! 🐌
Clearly these amazing little things are extraordinary and bring glory to YHWH! Like all of His creation, He leaves us in awe.
🎨Family Art Project🎨
When our family came across David W Runyan II’s snowflake photos, my mom, the family art leader, wanted to guide our family in an art project.😃
Here is what we did...
1. We each picked out a snowflake from David’s notes.👀📱
2. We made a sketch of the snowflake.✏📏
3. We used watercolor paints around the outside of our sketch to make it stand out without coloring the actual snowflake.🖌️🎨
4. We finished by painting details on the snowflake.❄
❄️🎨Finished Snowflake Paintings🎨❄️
Until coming across David’s snowflake pictures, I did not know that snowflakes had so much design in them.❄
Painting them, I realized how every snowflake, every spoke, and every center is design by YHWH.
I really enjoyed making the snowflakes with my family.😃
If you would like to join our family in making snowflake art, check out my mom’s publication, ajdoodles.substack.com.👈
AJ Doodles is hosting a Snowflake Art Challenge. 🏠
Psalm 139:14 I give thanks to You for I am awesomely and wondrously made! Wondrous are Your works, and my being knows it well.
Snowflakes testify to this verse. They are wondrously made. Looking at them blown up in David’s notes, I give glory to YHWH.
Family Pictures of Snow Day and Painting Project
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