Law of Nature or Magic?

Wanna learn something really interesting? When a glass is broken, if there is liquid in it, it shatters differently than if the glass is empty!

It was only my third disaster of the day and as disasters go, it wasn’t too bad.

The first was caused when I dropped a plastic glass containing  a small amount of ice and tea onto the tile floor. Since my plan for the day included vacuuming and mopping anyway, it was a no harm, no foul sort of spill.

The second was spilling beads from a project on the floor. It wasn’t the whole bag of minuscule beads I use to make little tree of life sculptures so again, no biggie.

I wish I were more of a science or math kind of person. I do have the gravity thing figured out but beyond that, I am pretty clueless. I do stuff and then wonder, how in the world did I do that? I’m sure it’s not anything magical. More like a law of nature. The law seems to be – if it is breakable, KB can ruin it!

I was triple-tasking – wiring beads on thin wire, listening to one of my books that I am proofing for the nine millionth time, and thinking. As I reached for another bead, my hand caught the full glass of tea sitting on the table beside me. The stemmed glass fell with a crash. Instead of splattering from here to yon as a glass usually does when it hits my floors, the glass only broke into a few large pieces. Those pieces stayed within a three foot radius. The tea and ice spewed farther, but how cool is that? What scientific minds out there can explain this totally interesting phenomenon to me?

Which maybe brings me to  an applicable spiritual object lesson – surprise, surprise!

If I am full of God’s love, when I fall upon hard times, perhaps I won’t be so shattered when bad things happen.

Just a thought.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.     Psalm 46:1

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.      Lamentations 3:22-23

Blessings

KB