Christine Nowak Outside Reading #3

The last outside reading I especially like was titled "Water's Uses in Religion and Spirituality". This focused on the relation between water, spirituality, and God. Water not only quenches our physical thirst, but our spiritual and emotional thirst as well. In ancient Athenian times they built temples especially for water in order to show their appreciation to God for the source. They considered it to be the simplest and purest symbol of soul purification. It also went on to talk about how God sent the Great Flood, and blessed the people with Noah, who built the arc to save them all. It then went into detail about how Moses parted the Red Sea in order to save the Israelites. One thing that our country does not take part in is the washing of certain body parts before entering any religious building, in order to show respect. Many places around the world take part in this custom, considering it second nature.