Quick Summary:

During this month long Season of Creation we’ve been exploring the relationship between our human species and the fundamental forces of EARTH, AIR, FIRE, and WATER. Our goal has been to connect the dots between the LIFE OF THE PLANET and our LIFE OF FAITH.

Along the way, we hope these worship experiences have invited, encouraged, and maybe even instigated a desire in you to take these topics beyond these walls and into your everyday lives. For the more we study and reflect on the natural processes that make this Earth a LIVING PLANET, the more we come to the conclusion, articulated so succinctly by John Muir, who said of nature:
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."

Today’s focus is WATER, and the story of WATER on this planet we call home is a complex one, shrouded in mystery. The questions WHERE did water come from, and HOW did Earth come to be the BLUE MARBLE PLANET we know today, have spawned numerous fascinating theories.
But as fascinating as these theories are, we’re going to begin with the here and now, because there’s no contemporary issue more important than WATER.

[Quotations from the Papal encyclical, Laudato Si, follow, with stories which knit our concern for watersheds to the water that flows into our baptismal fonts.]