Salt and Ice

Gracious, I haven't posted here in months.

My youngest daughter had a little science experiment a few days ago. She was to take two ice cubes and see what happened when salt was sprinkled on one of the ice cubes. Which one would melt the fastest?

Of course, anyone over the age of 10 probably knows the outcome, but one of the things that gave me pause for thought was the way the ice cube with the salt sprinkled on it actually looked like when it started to melt.

Every little sprinkle of salt created a hole in the ice. It didn't melt evenly. The ice cube remained intact, but the salt bore a hole through the ice wherever it landed.

As I reflected on this, I realized how much it reflected my own life. Each little sprinkle of salt represented a negative situation. While I still remained whole, each negative (life's events aren't all cheery, right?) had an effect, to varying degrees, based on how large the negative event was.

The larger the piece of salt, the larger or deeper the hole. The more significant the negative event, the deeper and/or wider the wound.

Pain is inevitable.

Sure, the ice continued to melt because that's what the experiment was designed to show. Fortunately, people do react differently than a piece of ice.

I am still here.

To be clear, the holes are still real.

And I do believe that nothing happens without a reason.