We know of the power of water...
The power of life and the power of death.
Scientists send probes into the heavens searching moons and planets for water, for water means life.
Yet here on earth tens of thousands have died and millions are displaced by the waters. To them water has become death.
In the waters of baptism we see these symbols joined, of life and death and new birth.
The voice of the Lord is upon the water. The God of glory thunders, the Lord upon many waters.

Lawrence Lee