Sunday, July 11, 2021
Sunday Reflection: One drop
Last week I found myself sitting by this little stream in Michigan. Its formal name is Allen Creek, but it is just one of a lot of little streams that flow into bigger rivers in Western Michigan.
It's a lovely little creek. Deer drink from it, frogs peek out from it, and a bear lives near it. But I was thinking about the little tiny drops of water in that little stream. Without them, there is no stream, of course. And where do they go?
To the bigger river, the South Branchof the Pere Marquette, and then to the Pere Marquette itself. Then, it rolls into Lake Michigan, that huge tub of water, and then to the even bigger (by surface area) Lake Huron. From there it would go down the Huron River to Lake St. Clair, on whose shores I grew up. Then down the Detroit River to Lake Erie and OVER Niagara Falls to Lake Ontario, and from there down the St. Lawrence Seaway and into the Atlantic Ocean, that amazing sea that makes England warm and nestles firm against Africa.
It's quite a journey!
Maybe we are just a drop of water, on of billions. But is that anything less than spectacular?
