Wednesday in the Fifth Week of Lent

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. - Alan Watts

In recent years a phenomenon known as “free swimming” has emerged. There are clubs dedicated to it, as well as a small number of online periodicals. There are books; there is apparel with slogans promoting the activity.

For those of you at least my age wondering what “free swimming” might be, I’ll save you the search. We used to call it ”swimming”. Speci…