[Flow] Together

Water is one of the most powerful forces on the planet. Interestingly, it is also one of the most fundamental human necessities. We need water. Health and hygiene depend on it.  Food production is devastated without it.  And while many are not conscious of this fact, we can be educated because for every person in America that basic necessity is met.  Education cannot take priority in an environment where each day survival is the most pressing issue.

Throughout each day I have seemingly unlimited access to water.  It is a major element in my routine and all I have to do to get it, turn on the faucet.  I am reminded in my travels, accessible water is a luxury that most of the world does not enjoy.  Third world nations remain in poverty because their children spend their day collecting water for their families instead of being educated.

I believe access to water is the grass-roots approach to helping our brothers and sisters around the world. And while water is the goal of which rain provides, I see rain as a metaphor for the people who will make this happen.  Rain here and there is essential, creating ripples in the area they land, but when rain unites, floods happen.  Change flows through the landscape of life as we know it and the world is left transformed. Just look at the Grand Canyon. With persistance and unity, these individual drops eroded insurmountable obstacles.

With the knowledge of such a basic inequity among man, we carry responsibility.  Action is required.  And in all fairness this is not a task for a little rain, our world needs a flood.  [Flow] together with me and many others, our world is begging for rain.

~ by travelingmercies on March 28, 2010.