DECELERATION

LIVING WATER, THE TEA OF LIFE

We all build little shrines. Trivial they may be, at times. And, we could certainly brew tea by the drip method. Surely the Tea of Life is a green tea. Water is alive when it flows through our veins, it is certainly the stuff of all living things as it flows among the roots of the Tree of Life.

It goes to the mystery of the Eucharist, which is profound. As an invention of Man, bread is the symbol of human artifice, when consumed it becomes part of us, as does all the tradition of civilization, the glory and gore of Mankind. Wine is also an artifice. Mainly of water, it quenches thirst and comes to flow in our veins to rescue us from a sterile desiccated demise.

We eat and drink. All our food comes from life and is transformed into our own living tissue. We will die and our dust will run the natural cycles to return to life again. "This is my body." is the acknowledgement of these facts and it is an admonishment to look on ourselves with humility as participants and products of the natural world. "This is my blood." is the demonstration that life must consume life and thereby participate in death as a part of life. When I die, I am resurrected. It is automatic and I become just as quick as the rushing waters I come from. I am no less me for having lived and died. 

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