God and the Glass of Water
by Brian Sanchez (04/21/2005)

God is like a glass of water. Pure and refreshing. Some people can drink it straight. Others think that it's too harsh or plain, and they need to sweeten it up a bit. Add some flavor. So some people mix it with Tang. Some mix it with iced tea. Some heat it up and make hot coffee out of it. Some add ice cubes in it. Some make it into lemonade. Their personal preference is based on their personal experiences, where they came from, what his mama gave him to drink as a kid, what her mama gave her to drink as a kid, and so on. Sometimes some people grow tired of the same ol' drink and they try a new one. Some of those people switch entirely and never look back, while some go back to their old drink of choice. Whatever flavor makes it easier to down that glass of water, people will do it. And sometimes some people go back to drinking plain old water again. It doesn't matter what we put in our water. Whether it's sweet or salty or bitter, it's still the same water. What started as water will always end as water. Whatever we mix in our water is no better or worse than what other people mix in theirs. It's only when one person claims their flavor is better than another's that we begin to have problems. And oftentimes some people drink the same glass of flavored water for so long that they don't know anything else but that flavor. The flavor becomes their water. What they think is pure water is in reality a flavor preventing them from tasting the pure water that is inherent in all people's drinks. Religion, of course, is the flavor. People need to realize that no religious or spiritual belief is better or worse than the other. It's all just one's own personal preference as to how they choose to down their glass of water... how they choose to partake in their relationship with the divine nature that is inherent within and throughout us and all things.

Source: http://lawofone.org/observations.html