Ever think about what if 1 or 2 things you have in your life today that makes your life safe and dependable every day.
This past week my mornings started and my evenings finished with a bottle or canister of clean water. Putting in/out my contacts, brushing my teeth, taking my daily pill regime, and so on. Every place, except Nsaba, where we stayed had water to the bathroom faucet - never turned it on due to the uncertainty of the water.
How many times do you just go to the faucet and turn it on for something and never think about that as a gift?
It's not that the many people around the world aren't aware of the benefits of clean water - the safety, future health, etc., it's about that it's REAL WORK for some many to get it.
In my short stay, I saw more access to electricity than I did to clean water or even water at all. At Nsaba (rustic - see previous post), we had good electricity for lights and ceiling fans (and of course the satellite TV) - but if you want to use the toilet you have to fill the top of the toilet with a bucket of water OR if you want to take a shower you have to do it with a series of bucket pours over your head (10) AND all of that water is brought toted from the closest water source (not clean water) and 50 gallon trash cans are filled to make it "easy" to pour all those buckets.
People in Ghana operate much of their lives around the next purchase of clean water like we revolve around purchasing gas for the car or the next Starbucks.
Now this is where the world gets normalized:
There are people we know, see, read about, etc. in the USA that aren't capable and don't revolve their lives around the next gallon of gas or the next cup of black coffee from Starbucks (I don't know the funny names to order coffee at Starbucks) and so they can't or don't.
In Ghana and other places, there are people that can't buy the clean water on a consistent basis or just don't have access.
The differences lie between - quality of basic health, i.e. how one feels and exists every day and in many cases, especially the children, life at all.
I used to work with a group of guys in the early nineties that would always give me alternative theories as to things like how the pyramids were built or the large graphics in the Peru landscape that can be seen from space - aliens! Could be true - but our history says something like the pyramids in Egypt were built by millions of people moving pebbles and boulders to eventually construct the soaring geometries of rock. Pyramids were not built by free will - built by the enslaved.
However - what the pyramids do prove and may be one of the reasons God allowed the enslavement to last so long is - it's a demonstration of what can happen when millions of people set their sights on getting something done and that He wanted everyone for thousands of years to come to contemplate the power of mankind.
We're not going to solve bringing access to clean water to all those in the world while we are on this earth - nor will we probably solve the challenge of of the homeless in Memphis and other cities - but we should keep trying.
Wonder how strong is Free Will?
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