WATERFALL

200,000 gallons per second washing over my soul. 
It may appear I am standing on the outside but my eyes and ears pull me over and I am drenched in the power, soaked to the core in what can only be described as humility.

There are some things that bring me to my knees, not by decision or demand, but by this inexplicable knowing that in the presence of AWE I have no other choice. 

Waters rush. We are born. Like a waterfall, there is no stopping the insistence of destiny. 

200,000 gallons per second. Overwhelming. Life can be so much of this.
A son’s quiet battle. A mama’s sudden passing. A daddy’s long decent. 
Things unexpected, washing over. Boundaries invaded. Emotions overtaken.
Sometimes, like now, everything all at once. 

The Indians who own the land on which this waterfall resides believe in the sacredness of the spray that explodes from water meeting earth.  The more “violent” the flow, the more mystical the mist that envelopes people and their place. If we join in this story, we agree that the seemingly unendurable intensity of life, the all-consuming circumstances, are precisely where the sacred moments reside—

I close my eyes and hear the thundering cries of unending tears cascading over and down…the raging waters of a grieving world that too often forgets just how beautiful and powerful it really is.

Have we forgotten that we are majesty? Have we missed the message that we are rare?
Oh the things we could build with the harnessing of this miraculous LIFE force—
with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control as our weapons of defense. 

Have we forgotten that we are majesty?

Even if I tried forever, I could never count the single drops contained in 200,000 gallons per second and yet they are there. Contained within the boundaries of singular purpose. Unified. Pressing forward. Each one glistening in the sun. 

This waterfall. I am mesmerized, standing as close to the edge as my humanity will allow. That’s what majesty does. It draws you in, and immerses you in something that feels like baptism.