Creating a New Environment

I have always been comforted by the law of conservation of masses, that matter or energy can neither be created or destroyed.  It has been the supporting theory behind my idea that saying or doing something, no-matter how big or small, always has influence.
I was reading the conversation thread on a friend's blog a couple of weeks ago and the discussion ended up down the trail of some heavy and somewhat discouraging  stuff.  A comment was made that though rivers, creeks and streams rush toward the ocean full of fresh oxygen and life, that freshness at some point hits a huge body of salt water and is overcome...lost, if you will, in a swirling depth of darkness.  Though this metaphor of converging water types was being used for a couple of different concepts, I was reading the post as if fresh water was to portray the sacrificial love of a healthy Christian culture and salt water to represent the rest of the world living in greed and spiritual poverty.  (Spiritual poverty is a topic I will touch on in the near future.)  When my mind's eye took on the image of a river of fresh water encountering a giant sea of crashing waves I got discouraged as well.  At first I thought, "really God, that's it?", and then almost immediately a new picture came in. 
Imagine that you are looking at a picture of a river meeting an ocean.  The bay is wide but hardly protective of the breakers that crash insistently on the nearby shore.  The weather is ominous but there is a break in the clouds.  You notice light pushing its way through and shining down on a small piece of the colliding water. It makes the surface sparkle.  The brightness radiates and shines a path of illumination down through the water so that suddenly you notice something; there is something down there.  You creep closer in to this little section of water and squint to see down into the little pool to see a crab, anemones, and starfish- color and vibrancy and life!  But how could this be?  Here in this atmosphere where two powerful forces are colliding into each other, it seems that one is lost, but really something new has been formed.  In the meeting of fresh water and salt water you find an estuary.
Estuaries are one of the most biologically diverse and productive ecosystems on earth.  They produce more plant life than any other habitat.  In an atmosphere where it seems that something fresh and new pure is being lost in the grandiosity of something else, we find that a whole new garden of life has been cultivated.  Pieces of the small and the pure meet with pieces of the vast and the grand, and together they create a climate that is all its own and incredibly productive.
Let's take our fresh water to the sea and create estuaries.