The Oasis Effect

10/06/2022 13 min Episodio 10
The Oasis Effect

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For the final episode of season one, Laurel Moffatt drinks in the wonders of water in Zion National Park.The relentless river that flows through the park's centre has carved out a canyon of incredible beauty. But water can have sustaining as well as destructive effects.Laurel investigates the living water that makes an oasis flourish in the midst of heat that bakes the life from the surrounding landscape.Then she asks, what would it be like to have water like that inside of us, as we confront the sort of hard times that threaten to shrivel us to a husk?LINKSChristina Rossetti's A Better Resurrection I have no wit, no words, no tears;My heart within me like a stoneIs numb'd too much for hopes or fears;Look right, look left, I dwell alone;I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with griefNo everlasting hills I see;My life is in the falling leaf:O Jesus, quicken me. My life is like a faded leaf,My harvest dwindled to a husk:Truly my life is void and briefAnd tedious in the barren dusk;My life is like a frozen thing,No bud nor greenness can I see:Yet rise it shall—the sap of Spring;O Jesus, rise in me. My life is like a broken bowl,A broken bowl that cannot holdOne drop of water for my soulOr cordial in the searching cold;Cast in the fire the perish'd thing;Melt and remould it, till it beA royal cup for Him, my King:O Jesus, drink of me.Liu, Rui, et al. Investigating microclimate effects in an oasis-desert interaction zone, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 290 (2020): 107992Living Water from the Zogoria province in Albania.

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