drama of a raindrop

I was considering how raindrops are formed.  It's all very interesting.  It turns out that two opposing forces have a lot to do with it.  The updrafts of air from the earth hold clouds up in the air (clouds are made of water vapor and are heavier than air).  Once some of the water droplets that make up the cloud get to a certain size, gravity overcomes the rising force of the air, and the droplets fall to earth as rain.  Scientists still don't understand how the water droplets build in size.  One intriguing aspect: thunderstorms have much stronger thermal updrafts and with the greater force of air moving up, much larger water droplets can stay aloft until heavy enough to fall...so we get larger raindrops during these storms.  Like so much of life the drama of a raindrop is defined by two opposing forces.  In our lives our "inner life" or spiritual life can float like a very small water droplet held up by the forces of earthly desire and self satisfaction.  Some kind of wonderful process led by the Holy Spirit helps our little water droplet build in mass.  Swirling forces in our "life cloud" bring more water and once our droplet has enough weight we finally can be acted on by gravity and brought to a new world.  Just as the storms permit larger raindrops, so we grow more in size in our personal storms.  Rain and clouds are far more dynamic than I realized and the raindrops within lives all around us are building all the time.

 

Leviticus 26:4 then I will give you rain in its season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

 

blessings,

Rob Smith