Recently, earth changes hit central United States as the worst floods in recorded history took place in the Midwest. Mary Crooks is one of those people affected and she penned this beautiful poem to express her thoughts.

By Mary Crooks

I stood beside you yesterday, looking across the river at the levee, just broken, water pouring over field and houses. My heart ached for the people and their losses.

Then my focus changed.

I felt your presence for a moment, companions sharing in the sight of the flowing, racing river. You were doing what rivers have always done, for untold millennia, yea, much longer than that. You were carrying water toward the sea.

Water; what can we learn from water?

I’d never considered water to be a teacher until this morning when I lay in bed in what the Australian Aborigines consider to be the Dream Time which is the state of being half awake and half asleep.

Water comes to us in two forms; one is fresh and the other is salty. Water in both states serves and sustains life. Therefore I asked myself is water in both its states simply another duality of life? Does water then teach us that even though aspects of life may at times appear ‘salty’ that in fact these salty experiences may actually be opportunities designed to teach us more about life?

To fully understand the wholeness and perfection of life surely one needs to encounter a combination of both ‘fresh’ and ‘salty’ experiences! Humans do experience this complete prefect connection with water as they drink in fresh water to sustain life but then cry out salty water to release pain stress and even excess happiness. Do humans realize that they are experiencing the complete expression of the oneness of water in the dual compositions in which water both enters and leaves their body? I guess not because until this morning I had never considered this as a facet of water in my life!

Coincidentally when people are confronted with what may term ‘salty’ experience in life they attempt to spit it out in the same way they immediately spit out salty water. I agree that salt water does not taste great nevertheless it is a great healer and often used for medicinal purposes.