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Performing Wudu
“Water touched us before we ever touched God.”
Her father’s daily washing before prayer, and the sacred ritual she learned to hide.
What is sacred cannot be shamed out of us. It can be hidden, buried, silenced ~ but water remembers what we were taught before the world told us to forget.
- What did you know was sacred ~ before someone taught you to hide it?
- What would it feel like to perform that ritual again, quietly, with no one watching?
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Water touched us before we ever touched God.
What is sacred cannot be shamed out of us.
Water remembers what we were taught before the world told us to forget.
You cannot unlearn what your hands already know how to do.
You cannot hide what is in your blood.
This is how we arrive.
Water is how we prepare ourselves to stand before whatever we consider holy.
This teaching closes Passage Four of The Well Being of Water: Surrender to Self, a lyric memoir in thirteen passages by Amal Lana.