O Waters, You Are the Spring of Gladness
O Waters, you who bring forth gladness — grant us the strength to live, and the eyes to behold what is great and good.
How indifferent have I been to the plain things that keep me alive each day — a cup of water, a breath of air?
📝Reflection
This hymn to water is not a plea to a god but gratitude for the most basic thing that keeps me alive. Water is so common that we do not marvel before it. Yet without water for three days a person cannot live. The poet asks of water even 'the strength to live' and 'eyes to behold the great and good.' Here I learn the order of gratitude — before acquiring anything special, first recognize the plain things already keeping me alive. To be common is not to be trivial. The most common thing is what most fundamentally holds me up.
🌱Apply It Today
When you drink a glass of water today, do not gulp it by habit — take one sip aware that it is the strength keeping you alive.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
