"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water," says Loren Eiseley, a scientist who writes like a poet. That's the first sentence of his essay "The Flow of the River." Because of a childhood incident he is afraid to swim, but one day he decides to lie down face up in a shallow river and let the water take him. As he floats he becomes intensely aware of the water that is in his body uniting him with the water in the river and all the water on earth and with all the forms of water, including the snow on the Himalayas.
He points out that we are three fourths water. We are "a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers." We are water up walking around.
This profound and intimate way of thinking about water makes it a perfect image of the life God shares with us. Through that Spirit we are at one with God in an even more intimate and powerful way than we are with all the water on the earth. We are the Spirit of God out walking around.
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