[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-1127":3},"NOVEMBER 27\r\nFor with God nothing shall be impossible (Luke 1:37).\r\nFar up in the Alpine hollows, year by year God works one of His    marvels. The snow-patches he there, frozen with ice at their edge from the strife of sunny days and frosty nights; and through that\r\nice-crust come, unscathed, flowers that bloom.\r\nBack 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\r\nsun-rays, and it kept them stored in the root through the winter.\r\nThen spring came, and stirred the pulses even below the snow\r\nshroud, and as it sprouted, warmth was given out in such strange measure that it thawed a little dome in the snow above its head.\r\nHigher and higher it grew and always above it rose the bell of air,\r\ntill the flower-bud formed safely within it and at last the Icy\r\ncovering of the air-bell gave way and let the blossom through into the sunshine, the crystalline texture of its mauve Petals sparkling\r\nlike snow itself as if it bore the traces of the flight through which it had come.\r\nAnd 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\r\ncould waken. We love to see the impossible done. And so does God.\r\nFace 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\r\ndifficulties together recklessly, and pile as many more on as you\r\ncan find; you cannot get beyond the blessed climax of\r\nimpossibility. Let faith swing out to Him. He is the God of the impossible. --Selected.",1783499794072]