Water
I've been thinking about water since my pastor preached on Good Friday about the significance of the water seen with the blood coming out of the pierced side of Jesus. The bible is full of water references, and it's common knowledge that we can't live without it. And yet some people do. And by some, I mean nearly 1 billion. My pastor mentioned Japan and their loss of water and how people all over the world are shipping cases and pallets and flats and cargo planes full of bottled water. It is devastating and unfathomable to say the least. But it's not unique. There are people in this world, under our watch as Christians, who have lived without water- real, drinkable, clean water- for years. Decades with no water. Yes, they have liquid they drink. They might have a community spigot, sometimes in their town, most of the time not. They might have a creek, or a small body of water, which is also the watering/bathing hole for all of the local people and local animals, which i...