Water is the very stuff of life. When God created the heavens and the earth, he put water right at the very heart of his system. More than seventy percent of our amazing world is covered with water and that water is teeming with life. It's true that beef, pork, and poultry are important to our diets as well as to our economy, but whenever some farmer gets a"big" head and begins to think that these are the only sources of non-vegetable protein, he or she should be reminded that ninety percent of this planet's creatures live in water.

The sea is our mother. Perhaps to remind us of that, God has arranged that all of us spend the first nine months of our lives swimming. Leaving that cozy bath is a shock, a trauma, which Dr. LeBoyer of France, and others since, have successfully lessened by pu…