Hope for When Family Relationships Are Hard

Mom, why does water fall as drops?  Why doesn’t the air pressure change the shape into something else . . . or break the shape apart?

It’s not even 8 am and my 10-year-old is asking me to unearth knowledge from the dark and dusty places in my brain, pull out something from a high school science class that I may or may not have been paying attention in.

My mind shuffles fast – something about molecules.  Or was it atoms?  Uh, let’s see, two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen.  It quickly becomes clear that I am not going to be capable of faking a scientific answer that is half way intelligent without pulling out a book…or Google.

So, for the time being, I throw out the only truth I am certain of.

“Basically, buddy, the forces attracting those water particles have to be stronger than the forces that are pushing against them, or pulling them apart.”

While he sat pondering for a minute, my mind drifted to a conversation just a few days prior.  A friend struggling with in-law relationships.  Misunderstandings, distance, harsh words, little grace.

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