mama says om theme: liquid

The human body contains up to 60% water, or 78% if you're a baby. Water in many forms. Tears, saliva, urine, semen, milk, sweat, bile, blood, acids, mucus. Even before our birth, as we float quietly in our amniotic fluid, developing and waiting, we are organic. Yet we're more than the sum of our parts.

Electricity runs through our nervous system and controls the beat of our heart. Our thoughts have the power to affect the health of our body for better or worse. And our weary spirits can be lifted by using our body to go for a long walk. We can express love and affection with the slightest or most intimate contact with one another's bodies.

As inhabitants of the blue planet, we are drawn to the waters. Oceans, rivers, streams, lakes. On any given summer day, that's where you'll find a mass of humanity. Swimming, boating, fishing, relaxing. Blue water. Green water. Crystal clear water. It soothes the soul.

We are living in a temporary "waterhouse" of sorts. The longest we can hope for any of our bodies to walk this earth is 110 years. In the grand scheme of things, that's a drop in the bucket. But God has placed eternity in our souls.

So be gone with the skin. Gone with the bones. Gone with pain and fatigue and hunger. One day we will rise above this blue planet. Our liquid spirits will flow from their terrestrial vessels and head to a place we long for. And I'm sure that there will be crystal seas, fluffy clouds and waterfalls, forever.

Mama Says Om