Water and Waterfalls – a Musing
“O Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!”
--A song of praise, Psalm 8
Last year when we vacationed in the Canadian Rockies, we had the opportunity to journey out onto the Columbia Ice Fields. Our excursion took us very close to a three way continental divide (from that point the waters flow to the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Arctic oceans). A glacier is huge – in order to qualify as a glacier the ice mass must be at least 100 ft. in depth, cover at least 25 acres of land and annually have measurable movement. Try to imagine standing on that much frozen, yet melting (ever so slowly) water.
Majestic doesn’t seem a powerful enough description for the awe I felt as we spent time on the glacier and observed the water trickling toward a destination in one of the world's oceans. We had just received word of the birth of our grandson. I bent down on the ice, collected some glacial water and brought it home for his anticipated baptism. We recently celebrated that baptism and our grandson has now experienced his first water from another land! I won't forget either experience for quite some time, I am certain. “O Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!”
Today I am in my reality. I grateful for water and its cleansing, refreshing nature. From time to time today I will allow water to cleanse my hands as I go through the work day. I will drink water to quench my thirst. I rejoice that I was able to enjoy water's sacramental splendor, last month.
--Ben Keckler
09.08.10
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