LOVING WONDERFUL WATER AS A GIFT OF NATURE

Floating on water, water sprinkled, water for a mikvah or baptism, water that cleanses, water that relieves thirst. Being always near water, having water in a bathtub, water flowing from a shower spigot, water that sprays into your face and water to put all over on your hands, submerged.

The power of water as it comes forth from the angry clouds in the skies from a thunderstorm, water that changes to balls of hail like baseballs denting cars and breaking windows. Wrathful water as it destroys, as floods and hurricanes havoc the lands turning prosperity into trash.

Water, pure water, water that has been chlorinated, water to sip on your tongue, to whet your dry mouth.

Water as a sport, to swim dive and splash! To paddle water with your arms to build muscles. Water that a dam cannot keep out, water that surges and breaks in wherever you think you are safe, but in reality are not.

Water that teaches a story, as the Bible story of the "Splitting of the Seas." An entire blue ocean that split in two like an event of magic, as a holy miracle, never to happen again, never as happening before, something to believe in or not, how a miracle occurs no one knows.

A red River Nile as red as your blood, not to drink, a River Nile that has become red wine, red blood, the color of water not to satisfy thirst, a river that instead is the cause of thirst, not relieving it. A punishment from The Lord as pay back for your wrongdoings, not to drink again, a reason to be sorry for your transgressions. To see fish once alive that have all now been killed, floating on their backs on this red water, not as a home for them, not to drink and not to swim.

Water as a mighty miracle, water that satisfies a sucking thirst, water that cleans the greasiest of dirt. So much water that it breaks the dams. Water with powers, important powers, the power to keep someone alive or the power to take his life away.

Having the power of a great body of water in your use of clean words and clean deeds, as clean as water. Loving, appreciating water as a holy empowerment.

Feeling that water has a life of its own, and that as a gift to you from G-D, water will never dry up, never to wander in a desert, watery wetness will always be there for you as a place of a promised land.