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02.01.2010

 
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Michael Fox CPCC,
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author and creative artist, whose work has been featured throughout
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Water.
Cool, clear water...
   

George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, poet, minister, scientist. His work influenced many other writers including J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, and even, interestingly, Mark Twain. MacDonald offered the following insight around the "deeper truth" of creation and, in particular, "the truth of water":

 

"What I, I ask, is the truth of water? Is it that it is formed of hydrogen and oxygen? That the chemist has such a mode of stating the fact of water will not affect my illustration. This explanation of his will probably one day be more antiquated than mine is now. But is it for the sake of the fact that hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water that the precious thing exists? Is pairing oxygen and hydrogen the divine idea of water? Or has God put the two together only that man might separate and find them out?

 

"He allows his child to pull his toys to pieces, but were they made that he might pull them to pieces? He is not a child to be envied for whom his inglorious father would make toys for such an end! A school examiner might see in such experimentation the best use of a toy, but not a father!

 

"Find for us what in the constitution of the two gases makes them fit and capable to be thus honored in forming the lovely thing, and you will give us a revelation about more than water, namely about the God who made oxygen and hydrogen. There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen. It comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyze.

 

"The water itself, that dances and sings and slakes the wonderful thirst--symbol and picture of that thirst for which the woman of Samaria made her prayer to Jesus--this lovely thing itself whose very wetness is a delight to every inch of the human body in its embrace--this live thing which, if I might, I would have running through my room and babbling along my table--this water is its own self, its own truth. Therein it is the truth of God.


"Let him who would know the love of the maker become solely thirsty, and drink of the brook at his feet, and then lift up his heart--not at that moment to the maker of oxygen and hydrogen but to the inventor and mediator of thirst and water. Such a man might foresee a little of what his soul might find in God. If he does not then become as a hart panting for the water-brooks, let him go back to his science and its husks. They will at least make him thirsty as the victim in a dust tower of Persia.


"As well may a man think to describe the joy of drinking by trying to scientifically analyze thirst and water as imagine that he has revealed anything about water by resolving it into its scientific elements. Let a man go to the hillside and let the brook sing to him till he loves it, and he will find himself far nearer the fountain of truth than the triumphal chariot of the chemist leading the shouting company of his half-comprehending followers. He will draw from the brook the water of joyous tears, and with them worship him that made heaven and earth and sea, and the fountains of waters."

(George MacDonald; Michael Phillips, editor; The Truth in Jesus, pp. 23-24)



How might greater observation lead to greater gratitude?

Who would you have to be to enjoy the deeper truth, the wonder, of God's good creation? A small child? An explorer? An artist? The "fool on the hill"? Who? Give yourself permission to assume the identity. Enjoy the change of perspective and play!

So, are you thirsty? 
Michael Fox
m�agine!

530/613.2774
407 Myrtle Drive
Farmerville, LA, USA 71241
 
In addition to personal and professional coaching,
m�agine! specializes in spiritual transformation coaching,
employing its proprietary models
--Values, Vision, Voice
and Heart, Soul, Mind & Strength--

as well as
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator� curriculum
published by CPP, the People Development People.

Michael's books include
 
Complete in Christ,
Complete in Christ Spiritual Transformation Workbook,
and Biblio�files.

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