Water [Baptism of our Lord A - Acts 10:34-43]
T he Rt. Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Acts 10:34-43 Water St. James, Au Sable Forks We live on a world of water. Seventy-one percent of the surface of our planet is covered in the stuff. And that water makes life possible. The smallest to the largest lifeforms are teeming with liquid life. Including us. Each person, each human being, is mostly water: babies are almost 80% water weight; adults around 60%. Water allows us to think (the brain is about ¾ water); to breathe (the lungs are more than 80% water); to pulse with life (the heart is about 75% water and our blood checks in around 90%). We are a water people on a watery world. And in this big world, we happen to live and minister in a diocese very much defined by water. Our southern border is a mountain range named after a kill, a creek – the Catskill Mountains. Our northern border is the St. Lawrence. Not far from here, our eastern...