Evaporation
Journal 2006 09 08
Evaporation
Yesterday Captain Clark records this observation as a note to his regular record, “…(note the evaperation on this portion of the Missouri has been noticed as we assended this river, and it now appears to be greater than it was at that time. I am obliged to replenish my ink Stand every day with fresh ink at least 9/10 of which must evaperate.)”
Today, he ponders the wonder of this observation. “The Missouri at this place does not appear to Contain <as much> more water than it did 1000 Miles above this, the evaperation must be emence; in the last 1000 miles this river receives the water 20 rivers and maney Creeks Several of the Rivers large and the Size of this river or the quantity of water does not appear to increase any…”
Captain Lewis made a record regarding evaporation in September 1804. If my memory is correct they timed how long it took for a teaspoon of water to evaporate.
The Corps makes about seventy-eight miles today after only making twenty-eight yesterday. High winds and a sumptuous dinner of fresh elk slowed their progress yesterday. Today they wanted to make the Platte River. They fell a little short of the Platte but reconfirmed their observations that the area around Council Bluffs would make a fine place for a fort or city.
The practical side of work complete, William Clark allows his ever practical mind to ponder the mystery that confronts his logical, scientific mind. That mystery is how twenty rivers of a size equal to the Missouri and numerous creeks can join the Missouri without increasing its flow. So he notices how rapidly his inkwell dries out and digs a little deeper to notice the high rate of evaporation. Could the atmosphere really soak up the water of over twenty rivers in the course of one thousand miles? Clark concludes maybe and probably. I don’t know the answer, but I bet someone reading this does.
What I do know is that we all understand the principle of “drying up.” I hope none of you have experienced a drying up in your lives, but I know I have at points and can guess that many of you have felt that dryness when it seems like everything in life is dry and unable to produce fruit. At the same time I hear that Sunday School refrain running through my brain, “I’ve got a river of life flowing out of me…”
Is it possible that the atmosphere of life can absorb the living water by a spiritual process similar to evaporation and suck us dry? I think so. The danger for us is that we can’t see it happening until the water no longer courses down the streambed.
“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal. It was flowing from the throne of God and the lamb.” (Revelation 22:1)
Eternal water always enough to never get dried up. But this river isn’t available to us yet because this Scripture is for the future. But there is a well we can drink of that holds this same water, the water of life. “Jacob's Well was also there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about twelve noon. A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Please give me a drink." For his disciples had gone off into town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, "How can you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews do not have anything to do with Samaritans. Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, 'Please give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water? You're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it, along with his sons and his flocks, are you?" Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again. But whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never become thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I won't get thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water." (John 4:6-15) He did and she drank.
And before He ascended Jesus declared, “On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have rivers of living water flowing from his heart.”(John 7:37-38)
Evaporation is going to happen. Sometimes faster than noticed. Are you thirsty? I am.
See you at Jacob’s Well.
Proceed on.
Evaporation
Yesterday Captain Clark records this observation as a note to his regular record, “…(note the evaperation on this portion of the Missouri has been noticed as we assended this river, and it now appears to be greater than it was at that time. I am obliged to replenish my ink Stand every day with fresh ink at least 9/10 of which must evaperate.)”
Today, he ponders the wonder of this observation. “The Missouri at this place does not appear to Contain <as much> more water than it did 1000 Miles above this, the evaperation must be emence; in the last 1000 miles this river receives the water 20 rivers and maney Creeks Several of the Rivers large and the Size of this river or the quantity of water does not appear to increase any…”
Captain Lewis made a record regarding evaporation in September 1804. If my memory is correct they timed how long it took for a teaspoon of water to evaporate.
The Corps makes about seventy-eight miles today after only making twenty-eight yesterday. High winds and a sumptuous dinner of fresh elk slowed their progress yesterday. Today they wanted to make the Platte River. They fell a little short of the Platte but reconfirmed their observations that the area around Council Bluffs would make a fine place for a fort or city.
The practical side of work complete, William Clark allows his ever practical mind to ponder the mystery that confronts his logical, scientific mind. That mystery is how twenty rivers of a size equal to the Missouri and numerous creeks can join the Missouri without increasing its flow. So he notices how rapidly his inkwell dries out and digs a little deeper to notice the high rate of evaporation. Could the atmosphere really soak up the water of over twenty rivers in the course of one thousand miles? Clark concludes maybe and probably. I don’t know the answer, but I bet someone reading this does.
What I do know is that we all understand the principle of “drying up.” I hope none of you have experienced a drying up in your lives, but I know I have at points and can guess that many of you have felt that dryness when it seems like everything in life is dry and unable to produce fruit. At the same time I hear that Sunday School refrain running through my brain, “I’ve got a river of life flowing out of me…”
Is it possible that the atmosphere of life can absorb the living water by a spiritual process similar to evaporation and suck us dry? I think so. The danger for us is that we can’t see it happening until the water no longer courses down the streambed.
“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal. It was flowing from the throne of God and the lamb.” (Revelation 22:1)
Eternal water always enough to never get dried up. But this river isn’t available to us yet because this Scripture is for the future. But there is a well we can drink of that holds this same water, the water of life. “Jacob's Well was also there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about twelve noon. A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Please give me a drink." For his disciples had gone off into town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, "How can you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews do not have anything to do with Samaritans. Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, 'Please give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water? You're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it, along with his sons and his flocks, are you?" Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again. But whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never become thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I won't get thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water." (John 4:6-15) He did and she drank.
And before He ascended Jesus declared, “On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have rivers of living water flowing from his heart.”(John 7:37-38)
Evaporation is going to happen. Sometimes faster than noticed. Are you thirsty? I am.
See you at Jacob’s Well.
Proceed on.
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