What if? Originally penned in 2013

 What if the bible and particularly Jesus should never have been interpreted literally.

Think about the story of Noah, when the floods came Noah did not just cram the ark full of people, he saved the animals too, all the creatures were important.

So what if the story of Jesus is a warning, passed down through history.

What if Jesus was meant to be seen as a representation of the earth. It isn’t really a massive leap, for if we believe that an almighty being created the earth then we could say the earth is the child of the creator. The bible tells of the miracles that Jesus could do, look closely at your surroundings and you can see nature’s miracles every day.

The bible tells us that Jesus is always with us, well if he represents the earth, he is.

We are the only living thing that does not live in harmony with nature, our arrogance makes us believe we are better and our lives more valuable than any other form of life. We treat the planet the animals and our fellow man appallingly. We act like a spoilt child, we think we can take and destroy without consequence.

In the bible it was the people who were given the choice as to whether Jesus should live or die and the people chose to destroy him. Maybe that is why Jesus is represented in the form of man, perhaps the message is, if we do not change we will destroy ourselves and when we are gone life will thrive again without us. That is the resurrection.

This puts the responsibility for our future purely back on us, we should strive to be better, kinder, honest and considerate we should respect our surroundings and build a better future and if we could do that it would be a proper miracle.

Who am I, Who are you Who are we

 Our bodies are made up of 40 trillion cells, each cell contains 100 trillion atoms. Every day 330 billion cells die and are replaced. That means that every 100 days all our cells are replaced. Our bodies are forever changing the body you were born in is very different to the one you are in now.

In order to replenish our cells we eat on average 2kg’s of food a day 730 kgs a year.

We drink on average around 3 litres a day 1,095 litres a year

Our hearts pump over 6000 litres of blood around our body every day. 5 litres a minute. 2,190,000 litres a year. Our heart beats 100,000 times a day 36 million times a year.

For everything we consume we produce a similar amount of waste...that is every human on the planet...there are also all the animals working through similar cycles!

There is some miraculous purification process going on.

There is only a finite amount of water on the planet! The water here now is the same as when the dinosaurs existed.

All animals are made up of at least 60% water, us humans are 60% water.

Our brains are 75% water

Our lungs 83% water

Our hearts 79% water

Our blood is 83% water

We breathe 11,000 litres of air a day over 4 million litres a year. The typical composition of the air we breathe is 79% nitrogen 13-16% oxygen and 5% of the air we breathe is water which comes out at over 200,000 litres of water a year.

One sleeping person will exhale half a pint of water back into the atmosphere overnight.

The water cycle talks about Collection (we think of oceans and rivers) Evaporation, Condensation and Precipitation.

The amazing thing is we are all part of that cycle water flows through and collects in us...in every animal. We are all linked the water that flows through you is also in the rain it flows through your friends and family, through the animals, flowed through people we have loved and lost.

So in a body that is miraculous, forever changing and acts like a little eco-system with it's own water cycle, where does our sense of self come from. The atoms, cells the air we breathe the water we drink the food we eat all leave our body in a relatively short period of time. So when we die does our sense of self leave to, do we have a formless weightless spirit/soul that enters our body at the start of our life journey and exits at the end?

So who am I

Who are you

Who are we?

Is a raindrop still a raindrop when it falls into the sea?

What is for sure is life is a miracle that very few of us appreciate as we should.

“Be like water my friend”