I was reading a column in the January 2010 issue of Glamour magazine, and came across Ms. Ramirez's testimonial on water. She grew up in the Dominican republic and often times fell sick and missed out from school due to water related illnesses.
Granted in America today there is limited amount of cases of water pollution, if any are usually due to lead poisoning, which is very seriously controlled.
I don't like to do the dishes, but I have to do them because we don't own a dish washer and even if we did, I probably will be washing them either ways. But it just stroke me how clean water is in America.
I recall growing up in Cameroon, and the water was and is a mess for the most part. I lived in a community where I was blessed to have the "dirty" water flowing through some taps amongst all in the entire house.it is never a guarantee that you would open a tap and have water flow through it. So blessed that other people would come over to carry drinking water from our house, though it was still the messy brown looking fluid we paid bills for. We also had dug a well, because even though we paid for the water system, it would be so brown, you could not take a shower with it we would rather fetch the water off from the well.
So that is why I dedicate this post to water, because, now I am grateful to God that I can see clean water in other parts of the world and drink safely from a tap even though I don't have to because bottled mineral water is affordable.
You never know the importance of something until you don't have it!
Oh Jesus I am thankful for water...mere water.
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