Water and Ice.
The dripping of water, the ice-glazed trees and the hard decision to cancel church service has made my heart quiet and thoughtful.
These two words water and ice reminded me of a science lesson I was teaching my girls a few weeks ago. The main lesson was on the unusual properties of water. Water is slow to boil and slow to freeze in the chemistry of life. It takes more energy for the hydrogen bonds to break free before it begins to boil. When converting liquid water to ice we find that it does not need energy, because in reality, in the freezing, energy is released or liberated. As water freezes the volume of water increases and becomes less dense. Because of this ice floats, which keeps the ecosystem of life growing and surviving underneath the surface.
While I was thinking of this, two other words with unusual properties were brought to mind by the arrival of the sad news of a death of dear one for one of our own.
Life and Death.
Unless we continually keep our hearts rooted in eternity, we tend toward the thought that life is over when death comes. Yet life is not done. The words…”went to be with Jesus.” opens up the realization that his story is not finished. This chapter of his life is just beginning and will go on forever.
Life here, as we know it is living, breathing, doing and communicating. Death brings a stop to all this. Yet life in Christ, like water, has unusual properties. For it is when the soul breaks through the bonds of this world that life begins as it was meant to be. When our soul is liberated from the gravitational laws of this world, the reality that our heart yearned for begins. Beneath the surface of the skin we live in, we can grow, survive and cultivate the soul so that when death comes, in reality we are liberated to live the life we were created for.
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