Daily miracles!

 

      Now that summer is folding into fall, and leaves dance in riot of color, I notice the pronouncing play of the miracle. Life, I realize is the presence and absence of this magic ingredient. The miracle and magic of water never ceases to fascinate me. May be everyone will be enamored by it- if they pause long enough from their daily grind.

The entire climate system is tied to this miracle. The clouds, snow, rainfall, rainbow… its all latent and present in every drop of water. Floating snow flakes perform a heavenly synchronized dance, always fascinating and perfect. Everything, everything about the snow is a silent miracle…Earth seems to be just a giant bubble.

Not so the monsoon. It is served with gusty windy, crackles of thunder, chaotic swaying of the trees and plants, like ghosts dancing. The dust balls that dissolve in rivulets of brown water and the brown that gradually dissolves into the rapid whites…the foaming cliffs…the celebrations around monsoon…

Dry deserts with hidden waters…fossil waters…the Antarctic ice sheets…the floes of ice teeming with life underneath… The mist, the fog, the rain, the sleet, the hail, the snow…and the water in my cup…I love it all.

The miracle of water, chemists say, is the unity bond of hydrogen and oxygen…togetherness at all times. In blood and body, in tears and delight…, everybody from the layman to the rocket scientists think about water...It encircles our globe as ocean and connecting us in ways unknown…

 Everyday I remember this miracle as I drink my first cup of water in the morning and offer the verse from Devi Mahatyam

II Ya Devi Sarva Bhooteshu Vishnumayethi Sabdhitha

Namastasyai    Namastasyai    Namastasyai Namo Namaha II

What is your miracle of the day?