Blessing for Water
Prayer of the week
I am fortunate enough to live in a place with abundant water. Any time I like I can walk or drive a short distance and sit by a cold mountain creek or river, which is what I did last Thursday, for a good two hours. Just sat there and appreciated it. Watching the water flow I got to thinking about the miracle of water—how it nourishes and delights us, how it has shaped the earth, how it forms the building blocks of life, how without it we’d all shrivel up and die. And mostly, how it goes everywhere and sees everything, across all time. The creek I sat beside carried the same water that got a shoutout in the first chapter of Genesis. The water I put in my Berkey filter today may have helped carve the Grand Canyon, been part of the iceberg that sunk the Titanic, or been drank and peed out by Attila the Hun. Water, with its ingenious cycles of sustainability, its shape-holding memory (as ice), its perpetual beingness, and its sheer generosity to all life, is one of the great proofs of divinity on earth. So I thought, let me add my blessing to this blessing. And that’s what I did.
How far have you come
to splash against my hips?
How many eons traversed
to moisten my lips?
How many turns have you wended
and boulders upended
to quench my thirst?
Bless you water,
for from the first,
when our Father divided
yourself from yourself,
filled the oceans with your swirling darkness
and drew lines in the sand
past which your power may not flow,
you have nourished the roots
and cleansed the shoots
of all that is alive and grows.
Take this small blessing,
add it to yourself.
Take it and flow everywhere,
carving, torrenting,
washing, quenching,
freezing, boiling,
evaporating heavenward
and raining down again.
Take this blessing
on your journey of blessing
through time and time
and time.
In His holy power and spirit,
Amen.
Thank you for praying with me.
It helps more than you know. Maybe you will find a time this week to bless the water that nourishes, cleanses, and delights you, and then travels on to nourish, cleanse, and delight others. If all the water in the world were imbued with our prayer and blessing, I wonder what impact it might have?
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I love the idea of blessing the water and praying. I also find water fascinating and nourishing, it’s our life support. Thank you 🙏🏻