The Water Service, blessings

Our (annual) Unitarian "Water Service" is symbolic of "Unity in Diversity" - free of dogma, where we are free to choose and to discover our wisdoms, tell our own stories. Kris Hanna, our Minister, begins today's service with our (annual) "blessings of the water", so essential for all life and one of the four elements of the Ancient Greeks: Earth, Water, Air and Fire.
The children were the first to bring their water to the bowl at the front of the Church and then to water our garden on the way to "Kids Club". The water brought by the rest of us was also added, later.
Kris commences his address by briefly mentioning the biblical references to the cleansing power of water, late 19th Century Theosophicists' understandings about water, water for cleansing and purifying, water within Jungian symbolism, and water seen as well-springs - "a divine essence bursting forth into human consciousness" as the world's great religions came into being at a particular time and place. Kris's address ends today with a meditation and a prayer. Listen on ...not to be missed!