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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.
Water teaches
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.
Reflection
- 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?
This teaching closes Passage Four of Surrender to Self, a lyric memoir in thirteen passages by Amal Lana.