In the Flow
When I go for walks by my home, I walk along a creek bed. As I was walking the other day, and a couple times before that, I felt like the Lord gave me a thought. But first, a short lesson in geology :) The rocks that stay in the steady stream of the water, become broken down over time. Their edges become smooth, their ridges are less sharp than before. If you look closely, in the heart of the stream, many rocks are totally smooth and mostly round. This process of being broken down and shaped, is called weathering. The erosion and weathering process can look different for every rock based on what kind of rock it is and the energy levels of the water it's in. As rocks encounter other rocks while also being in the force of the stream, abrasion begins to soften its edges. All of the small rocks that you see, were once a part of a larger rock, most likely many miles away upstream from where it is now. These small rocks are broken pieces of the larger ones, that have become dislodged