Soul water Part Two - The Spirt
Ghia – How water is good for the spirit.
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Hurray.
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:Ghia here.
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:I'm this week's host of the creative,
spiritual journey podcast, where I
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:talk about connecting with nature.
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:Connecting with Jesus Christ
and our heavenly parents.
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:Seasonal living.
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:And anything else I've been learning about
on this remarkable journey we call life.
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:Today is part two soul
water for the spirit.
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:As I said in my last
podcast, soul water part one.
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:If you have never heard of soul water
that's because I made it up to me.
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:So water means using water to support
and sustain the body and the spirit.
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:So let's talk about soul
water for the spirit.
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:In my last episode, I talked
about soul water for the body.
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:It was all pretty common
knowledge, non refutable stuff.
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:This week is a little different.
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:My thoughts about soul water
for the spirit are not provable
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:and they are not scientific.
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:So take or leave them as you will.
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:what I want to talk about is
how the physical water that we
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:can see touch feel and hear.
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:Can influence stimulate in live-in
and even inspire our spirit.
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:All the while making our spirit healthier.
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:Granted, not all my ideas require physical
water, but they all require a knowledge
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:or understanding of physical water.
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:So let's dive in.
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:How many stories, miracles or ordinances.
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:Can you think of that?
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:Revolve around water?
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:During the creation, there was the
separation of water from dry land.
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:We have Noah and the arc,
Moses getting water out of a
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:rock and parting the red sea.
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:Christ's first miracle of turning water
into wine christ walking on water.
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:Leper sent to Washington, the river.
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:The Centurion sent to
Washington, the Jordan.
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:Baptism, both for the living and the dead.
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:The ritual washing during the temple
initiatory and the sacrament we take each
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:Sunday as a side note, I have to say.
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:I don't believe water is
simply a convenient substitute
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:for wine in our sacraments.
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:I believe it is by design because
that is how important water is.
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:It's so important.
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:In fact that in Jeremiah Christ calls
himself the fountain of living water.
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:And in John, while talking
to the Samaritan woman.
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:Christ's offers her living water
springing up into everlasting life.
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:I love that when trying to explain
what he has to offer the world
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:Christ uses the concept of water.
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:Water as the giver of life.
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:Could there be a better analogy?
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:I know I'm taking a leap here, but
I love the idea that fostering a
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:relationship with water will help us
foster a relationship with Jesus Christ.
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:In my mind, water is magical.
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:If you doubt me, listen
to revelation 22 1.
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:Where John recording a vision says, then
the angel showed me the river of life.
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:As clear as crystal flowing
from the throne of God.
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:Hmm.
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:If water flowing from the throne
of God doesn't sound magical.
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:I don't know.
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:What does.
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:So how to hone a relationship with
this magical inanimate substance.
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:I find this relationship
comes through using my senses.
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:Here's an example.
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:Joseph B Wirthlin a member of the
quorum of the 12 apostles said.
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:These latter days are a time
of great spiritual thirst.
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:Many in the world are searching often
intensely for a source of refreshment
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:that will quench their yearning for
meaning and direction in their lives.
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:They crave a cool, satisfying
drink of insight and knowledge.
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:that will soothe their part souls.
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:Their spirits cry out for life-sustaining
experiences of peace and calm.
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:To nourish and enlightened they're
withering hearts and quote.
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:My relationship with water, meaning I
have experienced physical thirst helps
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:me to understand the yearning I have
with my body for a relationship with God.
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:How about this one?
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:He may get me lie down in green pastures.
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:He leadeth me beside still waters.
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:There is a beautiful feeling of peace that
floods the space next to still waters.
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:Have you felt it.
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:When I close my eyes, an image
I experienced several years ago,
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:while camping in the boundary
waters of Minnesota comes to mind.
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:It was a fall evening and the mist rising
off the lake was rosy and love some.
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:I could hardly believe it was real.
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:The beauty was heavenly.
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:Uh, This was a physical experience
that could only happen while I
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:was in my body on this earth.
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:As I recall this image years later.
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:I still feel amazement and
wonder at the site and it suits
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:my spirit and makes me smile.
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:These are two examples of the
blessings I find in water.
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:An explanation for yearning.
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:And soothing beauty.
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:Let me share a few more.
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:I grew up sailing off the coast
of California and even worked for
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:years next to a famous surf spot.
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:But my most quality time with
the ocean was more recently while
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:living in half moon bay, California,
just south of San Francisco.
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:There.
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:I was able to walk the ocean
shore almost every day.
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:I found the ocean incredibly moody.
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:It could be surreal and
magical during sunset.
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:Then a short time later, it
could be fierce and imperious
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:Spending so much time next to the
ocean was a life altering experience.
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:If a lake is known for calm, the
emotion of the ocean instills in
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:me, courage and determination.
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:The crashing of the waves, the
endless rolling in and out in livens.
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:My body.
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:You may have a totally
different experience.
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:I note that experience and
ponder what it means to you.
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:I have to say that my favorite
body of water is the river.
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:Probably because I spent so much
time camped along river banks
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:To me, rivers instill a
feeling of hope and assurance.
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:I can't tell you how many quiet evenings
I have sat next to a river and felt
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:as if it were running through me.
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:And when I wake in the morning,
I am always so surprised
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:that it is still running.
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:Shouldn't someone have turned
it off during the night.
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:Yet it is going and going and going.
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:My message.
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:If it can keep going then.
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:So can I, anything is possible.
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:These relationships with bodies of water.
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:Are likely things you have
already experienced and are
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:relatively easy to understand.
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:Now let's dive a little bit deeper.
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:Rick Rubin in his book, the creative
act, a way of being uses water
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:and specifically the river, as a
thought provoking analogy, he says.
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:A river of material flows through us.
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:When we share our works and
ideas, they are replenished.
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:If we block the flow by holding
them all inside the river can't run
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:and new ideas are slow to appear.
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:I love this concept, this
concept that I can let ideas
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:flow through me like a river.
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:This is especially relevant to me as I
sit down to write a podcast and wonder
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:if I have anything else to share.
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:Ah, but it's my relationship with
rivers that teaches me that if I let
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:my ideas flow, they will never run out.
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:Water.
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:This soul water is a means of
supporting faith and belief.
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:And it must be true because as
daughters of the great creator,
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:it is our natural state to create.
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:And don't tell me you aren't creative
because you aren't crafty or artistic.
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:Perhaps you create order
or laughter or memories.
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:Like Ruben says, if we don't
let our creativity flow,
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:it will pool and stagnate.
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:And I believe we will
feel slow and lifeless.
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:I could spend a lot of time on the
subject after all, this is the creative,
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:spiritual journey podcast, and creativity
is a core belief that Judy and I hold.
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:But for now, I'm going to let you sit
with this idea and I'm sure we will come
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:back to this topic in another podcast.
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:Moving on.
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:Let me share another water relationship.
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:The pioneer water researcher,
Theodore Schwenk wrote.
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:To serve the cause of water adequately.
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:We must get to know it.
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:And it's true being and how do we do this?
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:Y by treating it the very way,
exemplified by its own behavior.
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:That is whenever we encounter it, we wash
the tablets of our soul, clean of all
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:other impressions in order to allow the
being of water to make its imprint on us.
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:Water can make an imprint Did you know.
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:Now, these are some grand fancy words,
but here's what they make me think.
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:We know water can clean
our bodies physically.
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:We also know that symbolically
water can clean our spirit
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:as we experienced in baptism.
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:But as I think and ponder about the
spirit body connection, I see water with
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:the ability to not only symbolically,
but also physically cleanse our spirits.
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:Let me explain.
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:It doesn't matter if I'm getting off a
one day river trip or a 29 day river trip.
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:I'm always excited to get in the shower.
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:While I wash the mud and sweat
out of my hair and off my body.
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:These few minutes in the
shower also calm my spirit.
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:The physical act of allowing
water to run off my body.
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:Helps me wash off my recent
activities and prepare me for the
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:next, my spirit, as well as my body.
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:Phil's cleansed and refreshed.
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:That is the power of water.
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:Taking this one step further.
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:Can I let this experience with water?
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:Leave its imprint on me.
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:So that in the future, I can recall
this experience, this imprint
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:and bring it into the present.
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:Just like, I can recall the
imprint of thirst or the beauty
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:of a lake when I need it.
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:Hmm, that's an interesting question.
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:The imprints you experience with water
and your life will be different from mine.
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:I invite you to notice them
with all of your senses.
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:See how water can change your mood
affect your day or your attitude.
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:Let water make an imprint.
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:Then practice pulling up that imprint.
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:When you find yourself
yearning for its influence.
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:On that note, here's another
physical attribute of water.
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:That, uh, remembering.
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:Remembering as one of the most important
aspects of our religion each week,
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:while we partake of the sacrament.
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:We promise to remember Jesus Christ.
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:That sounds easy, But in actuality, it
can be very hard to remember to remember.
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:With all of life's activities
and distractions, our attention
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:is constantly diverted.
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:Here's what I think's interesting.
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:There are a few Maverick scientists
that claim that water has memory.
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:Perhaps not memory.
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:Exactly.
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:But the ability to trap
electromagnetic signals.
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:Research in this field has been
touted by many as pseudoscience.
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:Still.
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:The idea fascinates me.
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:If our brains are 75% water.
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:Who's to say it isn't
the water in our brains.
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:That's providing our ability to remember.
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:Here's where my mind takes a great leap.
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:Do you recall that water?
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:We talked about in my last episode.
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:That water.
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:We need to stay hydrated and
keep our body healthy, to keep
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:swelling out of our brains.
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:I believe that same water helps our spirit
to remember to remember Jesus Christ.
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:I believe water physical water is just as
important for our bodies as our spirits.
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:That's why I call it soul water.
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:So even if you don't
believe water has memory.
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:You have to believe keeping our minds
clear and healthy is going to help
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:us to always remember Jesus Christ.
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:And the importance he has in our lives.
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:If we are dehydrated, we
won't feel good spiritually.
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:Good hydration helps us think better.
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:Brings us hope, peace, ideas, and answers.
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:All of these gifts of the
spirit, come from water.
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:Here is one more.
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:Did you know that you
can find love in water?
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:It's my belief that the water
in my life, whether I sit by it,
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:walk by it, raft on it, ski on it.
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:And most certainly if I drink it.
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:Helps me feel and share love.
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:First knee.
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:1125 says, and it came to pass that
I beheld the fountain of living
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:waters or the tree of life, which
waters represented the love of God.
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:I know that once again, I
might be stretching the point.
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:But I believe water physical water
represents spiritually and physically
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:the love of God on this earth.
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:The more we have this life
giving water in our lives.
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:The better we are going to be
able to have loving relationships.
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:Love ourselves, love
this earth and love God.
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:Now before you get upset and say, well, I
don't live next to a lake river or ocean.
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:Let me point out that we can find
the effects of water all around us.
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:Here's how.
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:I love this description of Christ
from doctrine and covenants.
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:one 10
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:His eyes were as a flame of fire.
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:The hair of us head was
white, like pure snow.
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:His countenance shown above
the brightness of the sun.
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:And his voice was the sound of
the rushing of great waters.
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:Even the voice of Jehovah.
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:Did you catch that?
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:His voice was the sound of
the rushing of great waters.
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:Thinking about this verse has got me
listening for the voice of Christ in
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:all forms of water, not just rivers
or oceans, but rain, hail, or snow.
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:Snow is often silent.
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:And I asked myself what
imprint it invokes.
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:Sometimes snow squeaks under my boot
and the imprint is completely different.
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:How about the sound of water,
filling a sink or washing machine?
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:Can I hear Christ in those places.
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:I was talking to my mom about
this hearing Christ in water.
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:And she said, I hear
Christ at the silver bow.
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:Coming out the end of my watering hose.
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:I love that my mother hears the voice
of the Lord while watering her flowers.
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:This goes perfectly with Isaiah 58, 11.
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:And the Lord shall guide the continually
and satisfy thy soul in drought.
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:And make fat diet bones
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:And thou shall be like a water garden and
like a spring of water whose waters fail.
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:Not.
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:That scripture makes my heart happy.
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:Ah, happiness.
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:Another imprint of water.
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:Let me share one more.
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:This is from Jeremiah 17.
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:Bless it is the one who trusts the Lord.
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:Who's confidence is in him.
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:They will be like a tree planted by the
water that sends its roots by the stream.
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:It does not fear when heat comes.
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:It's leaves are always green.
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:It has no worries in the year of
drought and never fails to bear fruit.
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:This makes me believe that if I am
thoughtful and pay attention, I can
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:do the mundane, ordinary things of
life, like taking a shower or washing
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:dishes or walking in the snow.
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:And allow the imprint of water
To fill me with the worry free
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:confidence found in Jesus Christ.
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:That is the magic and
miracle of soul water.
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:As always thank you so much for
spending your valuable time with me.
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:And thank you for sharing this
podcast with a friend your love and
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:support means so much to Judy and me.
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:And I hope my thoughts will help you
nourish your own relationship with water.
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:Until next time.
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:Nama stay.
