N.D. Wilson meditating upon a stream in connection with the God who created it and its history:

Does God shape each water molecule with the care He puts into His snowflakes? He needs no shortcuts to name them, no broad categories. He knows them each, every last one. He knows where they have been and where they are going. He knows their uniqueness and which of the holiest ancient drops are now in relationships that would appall any human sensibilities. If I could know the complete history of one cubic foot of this stream, then I could know the history of the world.

As for God, His Son turned water into wine. And so we end the story before He turned that wine into urine. (Should we deny that He did?) (Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl, pp. 46-47).

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