A double shot of holy water
It was a giggly conversation. ‘Oh! Father … It’s been a stinker of a day. I think I better have a double shot of Holy Water.’
I think I replied ‘Great! Will there be chips with that?’
But for all the frivolity it did get me thinking. What would a double shot of holy water look like? What would it taste like and how would it affect you?
Here then is my speculation.
A double shot of holy water would look alluring. It would be something that would be gentle on the eye, and unusual in colour. It’s not something you tend to see a lot of but it would sit comfortably with all those expensive looking bottles of various hues on the very top shelf of a chic wine bar.
Your eye would easily pass over it as just another expensive beverage that would make your credit card squeal in fear.
Holiness presents itself in the everyday, the innocuous and the easily missed. And yes there is a cost to holiness. Quite a considerable one actually.
What would it taste like? I imagine that there would be a little sweetness to begin with. The flavour of ‘mango’ on the palate and then something richer and more fulsome as you began to get the full measure of what you were now assimilating into yourself.
Then a fiery burning trail all the way down that would change your countenance and heat your toes. Steam might even come out of your ears. It would not just be a taste sensation … it would be more like an ‘experience’.
Those of us who regularly imbibe know both the pain and the pleasure and it leaves us saying just one thing. ‘Another double shot of Holy water… and yes… there will be chips with that.’