A Well

You may remember me posting this video a couple weeks ago because it's one of our favorite songs to dance to as a family.

But, it's so much more than that.  If you haven't taken a minute to watch it, please do.  It is worth it.

The reality that so many people still live in this world without access to clean water blows me away.  It is unimaginable to me that people in the Central African Republic (and so many other countries in Africa) actually walk for hours to get buckets full of dirty water, which causes 80% of all sickness and disease and kills more people than war.  That is not right.  ESPECIALLY because there is clean water available.  It's just deep beneath the earth.

Enter Charity:Water.  Building a well that will provide clean water for 400 people for 20 years is $5,000.  A lot of money.  But not in comparison for what it provides.  

So this Christmas, our church made a goal of raising enough to build a well in one of these village communities.  And on Christmas day, we reached the $5,000 mark.  So now 400 people that we will most likely never meet will be able to drink and bathe in clean water.  They will not have to walk miles for water, they will be healthier, they will live longer, and they will experience the joy of redemption in the form of clean water.

I am encouraged that our small community of believers would give so generously to take on such a grand vision as this.  But it is not about us.  It is really about loving God and loving our neighbors. Even if they are halfway around the world.  It is about giving clean water to drink, but even more so, giving a them a glimpse of the living water that is the true satisfaction of our thirsty souls.

Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”  John 4:13-14

You, God, are my God,
   earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,
   my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
   where there is no water.

Psalm 63:1