NO SNOWBALL IS LARGER THAN THE SEASONS

NO SNOWBALL IS LARGER THAN THE SEASONS

The age of artificial intelligence has awakened both hope and anxiety. Never before have wealth, technology, and information accumulated with such astonishing speed. Around the world, multinational corporations and concentrated centers of wealth appear to grow like snowballs rolling down a mountain. With every turn, they gather more capital, more data, more influence, and more power. To many, it seems that nothing can stop their momentum.

Yet there is a truth hidden within the very image of the snowball.

A snowball grows only because winter permits it.

Its size is not proof of permanence. It is evidence that the season favors its growth. When spring arrives, when the warmth of the sun awakens forests, rivers, fields, and flowers, the same snowball that once seemed unstoppable begins quietly to melt. It does not disappear because another snowball defeats it. It yields because the conditions that sustained it have changed.

Human power has always lived within seasons.

Empires have risen and fallen. Financial dynasties have flourished and faded. Technologies that once seemed eternal have become chapters in history. Even the greatest concentrations of wealth remain dependent upon realities they neither created nor control: the stability of society, the health of creation, the trust of people, and the fragile ecosystems that sustain life itself.

The environmental crisis reminds us of this dependence with increasing urgency. The Earth is not merely the stage upon which economies operate; it is the foundation that makes every economy possible. If forests disappear, oceans decline, climates become unstable, and biodiversity is lost, neither governments nor corporations can insulate themselves forever from those consequences. The mountain and the snowball both exist beneath the same sky.

The deepest question, therefore, is not whether wealth will continue to grow. Innovation and enterprise have brought remarkable advances to humanity. The question is whether power will mature as quickly as it expands. Will influence be accompanied by responsibility? Will technological genius be guided by wisdom? Will prosperity serve the common good, or only enlarge itself?

Scripture reminds us that "to everything there is a season." This truth is not merely poetic; it is profoundly political, economic, and spiritual. Every human institution exists within limits established by creation itself. No civilization is greater than the Earth that sustains it, and no accumulation of power is greater than the moral responsibilities that accompany it.

The greatest force in history is neither the mountain nor the snowball.

IT IS THE SEASON.

The season reminds us that permanence belongs neither to wealth nor to power, but to truth, justice, mercy, and faithful stewardship. Human greatness is measured not by how large the snowball becomes, but by whether it leaves behind a world where life can flourish after the winter has passed.

Pastor Steven G. Lee
St. GMC Corps
June 27, 2026