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Gravity 2 4 : B V O V If you added another ball that was smaller and lighter, like a tennis ball, guess where the tennis ball would go? It would go to the middle where the fabric was bent and the heavy basketball is. The moon orbits the earth because of earth's gravity. It can't escape because it is caught in the gravitational force of the earth. To put it simply, it's stuck going around something big and heavy and it can't get out unless something major happens to knock it out of its orbit. Suddenly, I saw that this is what happens to all of us, no matter if you're in high school, or if you're a college student, a young mother, a grandmother or grandfather. We get in orbit around something and we can't get out. Have you ever had a problem that was so big to you that it was in your face all the time? You couldn't think about anything else. All day long it was just right there in your thoughts, or in the back of your mind, and you woke up at night thinking about the problem. It could have been an illness, and you spent your time going from one doctor to another. Your whole life revolved around that illness. Or you had a child who was on drugs. All you could think about was what was happening to them, and your whole life revolved around that. What Is the Big Thing In Your Life? It's the big things that exert gravity. The bigger the planet, the bigger the mass, and the greater the mass, the more gravity it exerts on whatever is out there. Have you ever heard someone say, "Well, I just didn't realize the gravity of the situation"? We use the word gravity as meaning it's a big thing, it's grave, it exerts heaviness and importance. Gravity of a situation means it has a weightiness to it. When these weighty things come around, they have a tendency to pull us in orbit around them. They keep us going in circles. It's like those little gerbil wheels. They go around and around, yet the little gerbil doesn't get anywhere. Have you ever had that feeling? In what area of your life do you feel stuck? For some people it's their job. When they leave the office, the office goes with them because they are in orbit about what's going on there. For others, it's their family, their children or their spouse. Everything is focused on the perceived problem and nothing else is seen, heard or experienced. Some people are orbiting around their past—their trauma, their loss, the death of someone close to them or a divorce. No matter how far they go, no matter how many thousands of miles they move away from wherever it happened, they are still circling and in the orbit of their past. What is the opposite of weightiness? It's weightlessness. I love the feeling of weightlessness. I learned Sometime ago, I was watching a documentary on gravity and its effects. Not to get too detailed, but gravity actually "bends the fabric of space-time." If you had a tablecloth, two people held it, and someone placed a basketball in the middle of it, you would see that the fabric bends in the middle so that the ball becomes stationary. Escaping