We find Water mentioned throughout the scripture, almost like life depends on it.
In Isiah 58, verse 11, a verse about fasting and appreciating charity, it say's, "And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not."
This verse goes on to describe Water as a source of Good Creation saying, "build the old waste places" for generations to come.
We can take this literally; Irrigating, building a farm, passing the production to those closest... but like I said, I'm a bit of a metaphor head. Describing my soul as moving through drought, and being told, "thou shalt be like a watered garden, AND like a spring of water"... this intrigues me.
Once again, not only is The Bible preserving Life giving technology, poetically mentioning irrigation, it is also providing our Souls with Life giving technology. It's saying that the Good Lord will provide your Soul with relief, and energy for your body, when you find yourself in places devoid of the Good Lord.
Not only that, but the Good Lord will make you like a Spring of Water.
This Word, "Spring," being poetic, and once again describing a Life giving technology, is also important because Springs find a way to break through the toughest rocks, in the most drought stricken, arid deserts.
Springs of Water can be so rare... but if you can show me a Spring, I'll show you life.
It also mentions that you will become like a Watered Garden.
This is a bit deeper than a Spring... bad joke, sorry.
Meaning, in this instance, that you would be so overflowing with the Good Lord's Blessing, that you could begin to curate a space around you, and cultivate material byproducts of that Blessing.
That you will infuse the Blessing into the food, and in that food the quenching nourishment for others Individual's Souls. Other Individuals can take that fruit out into "the old waste places," perhaps they can become a Spring and plant the seed of that fruit, and give that Blessing to other Individuals.
I find this particularly interesting, because my own meditation on the Good Words, and some research into people who want to cremate everything, led me into fervor over a particular Good Word that has been corrupted... Care.
I encourage everyone to paint the Good Word "Care" on small rocks, and hand them out to people.
Ultimately, the message I received before I ever thought Christianity was an option for me, is this...
Create and Curate Care.
Cultivate Care like it's illegal. Spread the seed of Care to others, so they can Create a plot for Greater Care.
The World around us yearns for Care, that's not corrupted, just like they yearn for Love that's not corrupted.
While men may work to corrupt the Good Word of the Bible, they can't corrupt the Good Words of God.
If you speak Good, you Understand the Good Word.
"Good" get's translated into your second language when you hear it spoken.
When you hear Good Words being spoken, you meditate on them, and you feel the Glory of God in The Good Word.
Care to meditate on Care.
(James 3, verse 11; "Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?)
Where does Care begin? Sure, it's a word, a Good one... but when you actively Care, where and when does it start or stop? When do people just walk away and say, "Whatever, I just don't Care"? How many times in my life have I said, "I don't Care," or "F- it," or "Who Cares?"
I didn't Care to Care. I didn't Care to Understand God, or Care to be wrong. I cared to not Care.
I cared about disproving Christians, or cared to convince them of my pantheistic Gnostic, "mystery school," of the week.
By the way, all of those "mystery schools" all over the internet... that's not very mysterious.
(Isiah 43, verse 2; "When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they will not overflow you When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, Nor will the flame burn you.")
Sure, I would genuinely Care every now and then, but I was walking around with the rotten fruit of a tainted garden, of corrupted Care. This why Care is so important, and we have to take heed to the question that is asked in James 3,11- Can water be sweet and bitter, good and bad, simultaneously? Can a Spring or Fountain become tainted? Can this bad Water be Purified?
Can the smallest plot of misguided Care, tainted with bad seed, in a stagnant swamp, can the water in the fruit be purified enough to quench the thirst, and sustain an Individual in their drought?
You only Care enough to cultivate one piece of fruit at a time.
The digesting fruit gives you heart burn, and turns your guts, but the small amount of Water quenches your thirst.
Is Bread and Water not scarce in this iniquity? (Ezekiel 4, verse 17)
I would say that bitter water, is still Water. The Ground, no matter how dry it is, is still Ground.
Surely, tainted water leads to corrupted fruit, and corrupted fruit, plants little seed.
Is the Ground not there? Does Care remain? The Care is there, but it is Corrupted and used against you. I Cared about a lot of things, but they were grown from seeds that I got from somebody else's tainted garden.
Even if the plot has been tainted with bad seed, can the ground be sanctified?
We may be the Ground around the awakened Spring, waiting to become a vibrant Garden.
The pieces of Ground who have welcomed the blessed Water, and re-connected to the Source.
We may just be covered in a thicket of brush on the side of a mountain.
We may be in a rain forest, with a cornucopia of Plants, but reliant on Water in the mists of humidity.
We may be in a desert, void of water and thirsting.
Jesus is reaching out through all the cracks in the surface, trying to find a way into our hard hearts, trying to tell us that the Source Cares so much for us, that he wants us to have a direct connection through the Awakened Spring of Jesus Christ.
Water directly from the source, and available to any Ground willing to allow the Miracles of Jesus Christ to break through their hard hearts.
The other day I heard a guy say, "I Hate Water."
While I find shock in what he said, I know how that can be. Water is so relentless.
It makes up over-half of our bodies, it rains from the sky, we die without it, we use it for nearly everything, it's the largest "Land-Mass" on Earth. Oh, and it got blamed for trying to destroy the Earth a few times.
Looking back, I would have Cared to say, "You can hate water as much as you want, but Water still Loves you."
Water can purify over a fire, and also extinguish a fire. This brings me to my final reference, "The Lake of Fire." While Fire will always be Fire, as long there is Water in this lake, perhaps Individuals like my friend can accept that the Water loves them, while the flames really don't Care.
Grove Owls destroy our Gardens by night, and during the day, we're too busy thinking of intelligent things to say in less-than 200 characters.