{"id":1364,"date":"2009-11-06T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2009-11-06T22:28:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T03:28:55","slug":"refreshing-waters-october-21-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/refreshing-waters-october-21-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Refreshing Waters, November 6 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1363\" title=\"Photo_100609_012\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Photo_100609_012-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Photo_100609_012\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Photo_100609_012-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Photo_100609_012-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Photo_100609_012.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Refreshing, cleansing, cool, smooth, wet and pure.\u00a0 Water.\u00a0 Pouring down you freeing, soothing and peaceful.\u00a0 Underneath\u00a0it; \u00a0silence, weightlessness and peace.\u00a0 Running in it misting upon your face, splashing about your shoes cooling relief.\u00a0 Soaking in it warming and relaxing your muscles.\u00a0 Nintey eight percent of our bodies are made up by it.\u00a0 Water.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Do you love to go to the lake and sit on the dock to watch the sunrise above the motionless, glass like lake?\u00a0 Do you remember your toes in the sand, waves rushing up to wash them off on the beach?\u00a0 Can you still feel the spray from the waterfall you once hiked to years ago?\u00a0 Water.\u00a0 Relaxing, soothing, peaceful and beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>What is it about\u00a0water that we\u00a0need so much?\u00a0 Is it the fact that without it we will die so we have an instinctive need\u00a0for it that attracts us physically to it?\u00a0 Is it the soothing sounds of the water that we have in our subconscious memories from being in utero as a fetus when we literally breathed it and were protected inside of it?\u00a0 Is it because it is pure, natural and from the hands of God?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>&#8220;I will sprinkle clean water upon you to cleanse you from all your impurities, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.\u00a0 I will give you a new heart and place a new spirit within you, taking from your bodies your stony hearts and giving you natural hearts.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Ezekiel 36: 25-27<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Many places in the bible water is referred to as cleansing and purifying.\u00a0 That is why it is used in Baptism.\u00a0 Jesus was baptised by John in the Jordan river with water.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Maybe we all long to be cleansed of our dirt, our heat our sins and wrong doings.\u00a0 Within the flowing water we find that it washes all the dirt and sins away.\u00a0 It is a fresh start a new beginning.\u00a0\u00a0That is what water does for us;\u00a0 cleanes, cools, refreshes and sustains us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refreshing, cleansing, cool, smooth, wet and pure.\u00a0 Water.\u00a0 Pouring down you freeing, soothing and peaceful.\u00a0 Underneath\u00a0it; 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