Our neighborhood has been without water for about 4 days now. And our tank has dried up too. So we've been doing what I did in Mombasa over Christmas...borrowing where you can, and fetching the rest in jerrycans. While it would be nice to shower and wash my hair, it's just been an inconvenience...even a slight one. I have the money to pay a moto driver and ride into town and shower at a friend's house. Or brush my teeth at school. Even here in Kigali, it's just a small inconvenience for me. I am blessed because I still have resources. There are others, so many others, so many people here even in the city who regularly deal with this. It's a inconvenience for me. It's life for them.
There's a dad in my class from Louisiana and he works for Living Water here. Every week he travels to schools and vilages and installs water pumps to try and bring the basic necessity of life to the people here. And also bring the Living Water as well. I sometimes forget, that even in this capital city with streetlights and paved roads and office buildings and motorcycles and Landrovers, that people don't have water. It doesn't flow from a nice shiny tap in their kitchens.
It just started raining now...I'm sitting out on the porch, listening to the water rain down. I love that smell! I need to go set the buckets out to catch the water. How often do we take this living water for granted? I know I have before. It is so precious! Rain is such a beautiful sound. Have you thanked God for the water running from your taps today?
Too many things we take for granted. We think about our wants more than our needs. We think our wants are our needs because its always provided for us. Thank you God for providing us with much more than we deserve!
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