Tynion
01-17-2006, 12:00 PM
I sat in my chair, inside the warm building. Just outside of the door, the rain came down steadily. It had been quite a while since I had sat and watched it rain.
I began thinking about the principle of rain. About how the surrounding air becomes supersaturated with the moisture and humidity that we experience everyday. Just as when your hot chocolate cools, the liquid releases chocolate, and it settles in your glass; so too does the air hold water until it cools and releases it in the form of rain.
Outside, I see the wind blowing the trees, and remember the chill of the morning and shiver with the thought, thankful for my warm shelter. My mind drifts again, I remember squeezing an overly full sponge, and how the water pounded to the floor. I remember in physics class that we learned that gravity pulls equally on everything, and that everything falls at an increasing rate until it reaches the ground or terminal velocity.
I glance back out the window and see the quantity of water falling. I think about how fast any given raindrop must be traveling. What if it was not water? What if it was iron? What if it was sand? What if it was the tank of a tree? I know it sounds silly, but imagine if you came from a planet that did not have rain. Suddenly something began to fall from the sky!
I then began to think about valleys, rivers, coast lines. These were all cut by water. Water is one of the most destructive forces on earth. By moving across something, it will erode it away. Once it gets into something and freezes, it contracts like everything else right? Wrong! It expands and breaks everything!
Yet I look out the window and see nothing being destroyed by this substance falling out of control from the sky at nearly 100 mph. If I were to walk outside, instead of being shreaded apart, I will get wet. This time I think to myself, what a wonderful creation. The same stuff that breaks down damns, and makes cars slide off the road, and turns mountains into small hills, brings life in abundance to this world.
Yet another example of God taking the worst and making the most out of it.
Chris Newton
10-26-05
I began thinking about the principle of rain. About how the surrounding air becomes supersaturated with the moisture and humidity that we experience everyday. Just as when your hot chocolate cools, the liquid releases chocolate, and it settles in your glass; so too does the air hold water until it cools and releases it in the form of rain.
Outside, I see the wind blowing the trees, and remember the chill of the morning and shiver with the thought, thankful for my warm shelter. My mind drifts again, I remember squeezing an overly full sponge, and how the water pounded to the floor. I remember in physics class that we learned that gravity pulls equally on everything, and that everything falls at an increasing rate until it reaches the ground or terminal velocity.
I glance back out the window and see the quantity of water falling. I think about how fast any given raindrop must be traveling. What if it was not water? What if it was iron? What if it was sand? What if it was the tank of a tree? I know it sounds silly, but imagine if you came from a planet that did not have rain. Suddenly something began to fall from the sky!
I then began to think about valleys, rivers, coast lines. These were all cut by water. Water is one of the most destructive forces on earth. By moving across something, it will erode it away. Once it gets into something and freezes, it contracts like everything else right? Wrong! It expands and breaks everything!
Yet I look out the window and see nothing being destroyed by this substance falling out of control from the sky at nearly 100 mph. If I were to walk outside, instead of being shreaded apart, I will get wet. This time I think to myself, what a wonderful creation. The same stuff that breaks down damns, and makes cars slide off the road, and turns mountains into small hills, brings life in abundance to this world.
Yet another example of God taking the worst and making the most out of it.
Chris Newton
10-26-05