Underwater

When temporal meets spiritual

Have you been underwater and looked up?

Have you stood at the edge of water and looked out?

Have you been above the water and looked down?

Photo by Cristian Palmer on Unsplash

Blue.

Reflection.

Change.

Clear.

Depth.

There is an option in the iPhone in the Photos where there is a search option and it will categorize pictures automatically. In my iPhone photos, it did this and photos of the clear blue sky were categorized as "underwater" and photos of posing aesthetically or “flexing the muscles” is categorized as "art".

Both of which have deep meanings and the latter I will speak on in another epistle.

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What a deep meaning it is to have technology automatically categorize photos of a blue sky as being underwater.

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To answer the questions beginning this epistle, when one is to look up while underwater it has a blue hue, it is clear and changes depending on varying circumstances. The reflection of the sun is vibrant on a clear day or cloudy with dirt or when there is a disturbance in the skies. What is the most profound change of being underwater is the depth because the farther one descends the darker the surface becomes and when ascending the surface becomes more apparent and brighter.

To look out onto a body of water as a sea, depending on the amount of light from the sun will depict different hues of blue, sometimes a whitish blue, and at times a bluish black. At anytime of the day one will see a reflection of either the waves, the light from the sun or moon, and this changes as the day goes from dawn to dusk. The depth can extend beyond the horizon or not. Unless one is blind, one can see with clear vision where the water starts and where it goes past the vantage point.

To be above the water as in a plane or on a pier and to look down you will again see a blue color or different shades of blue depending on the season. One can see the depth of the sea, or the puddle in a street when the water is clear but when the water is dirty and muddied, the depth is knowingly unknown. The reflection can either be seen of ones own self, or of the light rays from the sun or of the moon, and when on a clear, sunny day and the water is still, anything can be reflected. It is most easiest to see the way, the way water changes when looking from above, the way it moves in and out, the ripple effect, how it moves back and forth with gentle force and little effort.

Now this is the time to open the mind to this point of view, being under the waters of Heaven. When we look up into the blue sky we think nothing of it or we were told by some one at some time the reason for the sky being blue is the reflection of the sun off the gases and particles in the atmosphere. To some though know the Kingdom of Heaven is above the Earth and some envision this image from reading scripture. My phone automatically categorized my blue sky pictures as being “underwater”, it is as if God His self is hinting at us a very deep and profound message.

Are the waters of heaven above us? Are we under the waters of heaven?