Day 11 - Everything Finds Its Level

A while back I was noticing the "flip bottle" game people seemed to be enamored with. They took a water bottle that was missing about half the water and tossed it with a flipping motion, hoping to land it on a surface in the upright position. Many YouTube video were dedicated to this effort and some were actually very entertaining. I started thinking about the science behind it, but I won't bore you with that now. Still, looking at the science brought me to another observation about the trick. Well, not the trick in general but something that occurred in the water bottle itself and it had to do with the water settling.

When a half filled water bottle is shaken vigorously, determining the amount of water that is in the bottle can be very difficult because the air trapped in the bottle begins to mix with the water creating bubbles and a torrent of motion. It is only when the bottle stops being shaken and settles that it is apparent how much water is actually in it. Sometimes life becomes shaken at what seems like the foundations. Those "shakings" can be of a bad or good nature, but when it happens, it is hard to keep things in order and even determine how much or little actually exists in the bottle. What came to me is that no matter how hard the bottle is shaken, eventually, when the shaking subsides, the water line will return to its point of level and an accurate assessment can be made to the actual amount of water it contains.

We are in the stages of shaking... the good kind of shaking. It is marvelous and we are discovering wonderful things about each other and enjoying this connection and relationship that is forming and growing. That said, things, people, and patterns around us have not adjusted to the shaking. It can seem as though we don't know what we actually have or how it will work. I promise you this, as we walk this path, together, the shaking will begin to subside and things will naturally settle and we will find our level. What I believe is that as they do, we will see that our half filled bottles have merged together as one and now is full!

Today, day 11, I celebrate you as the other half of me that I am discovering, engaging, learning, and enjoying. You are a gift and a blessing. Thanks for being willing to "shake" it up. We will find our level together.