Quote of the Moment

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Friday, May 06, 2005

In the Beginning, God Made Water . . .

We were eating dinner tonight and Laura asked for a glass of water. Sam asked if we were going to run out of water on earth some day. I explained that water, to the best of my limited knowledge, was sort of a constant on earth, within our atmosphere - we always have the same amount. No more, no less in the entire system as a whole. My husband said that we just keep using it over and over - we dirty it, we mix it, we take it in and we give it out. I added that the water we're taking in at this meal was possibly peed out thousands of years before by Jesus himself. Sam didn't like that idea, but I explained that urine was mainly water and that it was sterile.

Gibby then asked: Did Jesus pee to make water? (meaning to create water itself, as in "In the beginning . . .") We all burst out laughing. Things sure get weird around here.

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