One Degree

Have you ever known someone who is addicted to the weather channel? I have a friend who can tell me the barometric pressure in Bulgaria or when a tropical storm is going to hit the Samoan Islands. Although he never leaves his farm in Stinking Creek, TN.

But I don't have to watch the weather channel to know when it is going to snow here in east TN. If I walk into Walmart and everyone is grabbing bread and milk like it’s the last time in their lifetime to buy them, then I know the local forecast is snow. We can have a prediction of one inch of snow, and people still buy enough food for one year.

Speaking of snow, one cold, rainy night last winter I went to the gas station near our home. It was 33 degrees when I left the house, and as I was pumping gas I noticed the beautiful rain glistening under the station’s bright lights. All of a sudden, the raindrops started turning into beautiful snow flakes right before my eyes. Definitely a surreal moment.

I didn’t feel the difference, but I saw water droplets turning into beautiful snowflakes with only one degree difference. That one degree made a change for me and everyone else in our town. What if we could be that one degree difference in someone’s life? Perhaps one prayer or one word of encouragement would be the tipping point to drastically change their outcome. What if one statement caused someone to commit to the cause of Christ? One degree can change everything.

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