Is it coincidence that both the human body and the earth's surface area are composed of 70% water? As God created both, was there a reason that this mysterious substance was so prevalent?

Last week's introduction to the Lenten series offered an invitation to reflect upon both our culpability and numbness (acedia) with God's creation as well as an invitation to fall more deeply in love with God in Creation. The element of Creation we explore this week is that of Sister Water.

Even people paying little attention to the world around them understand that we have a crisis in reference to water. It is predicted that the next world wars will be fought over this necessary life element. As a people of faith, what is our relationship with water? What is our understanding of the crisis and how we participate in it as well as how we contribute toward its healing (and its healing us)?

We invite you to slowly and prayerfully move through the different parts of this water segment. May one or more of the elements touch you in a core place and may you be both challenged and inspired to relate differently with Sister Water - as St. Francis encouraged.

As members of the Body of Christ, may we indeed see and treat water as a living being within and around us. When drinking it, cooking with it, washing with it, playing in it, working with it - may you "know" that it is alive and that it desires to teach us in a very clear way how we must live our lives.