Frozen

 

Last week, the weather was beyond cold!  My outdoor fountain was frozen over and the ground was frozen solid.  My wife had left one of her plant pots outside, which was filled with water and had frozen.  And as the water froze, it froze on the top first.  But as the night continued to grow colder, the water in the middle of the clay pot froze (and expanded).  But since the top was already frozen solid, the freezing/expanding middle had no place to go, and the freezing/expanding ice split the pot, ruining it.  Freezing water is powerful!  I am glad that I unhooked the water hose that goes to my water fountain.  The freezing hose water would have split the brass hydrant where it was connected to the hose!  Hey, the dear Lord made water unique!  Most liquids shrink as they cool and freeze into their solid state, but not water.  Water expands as it freezes into a solid.  In His infinite wisdom, God protects fish, frogs, otters, seals, and muskrats with ice frozen on the top of lakes and rivers.  Ice floats on the top.  It doesn’t freeze on the bottom first or in the middle first, it freezes and floats on the top.  Psalm 18:30, “As for God, his way is perfect …”