World Water Day
Water.org
“Stirrin' up the water
Stirrin' up my soul
A Light comes to the darkness
Come and make me whole
Oh Stir it up, stir it up, Oh Lord”
www.petermayer.com/songs/stirrin-up-the-water
If I had to describe the amazing gift of water in just one word, I’d say, “blessing.”
It’s a blessing that most of us take for granted. Even our ancestors in Exodus 17:1-7 took water for granted until they didn’t have it. Their complaining and quarrels revealed their dehydrated spirits.
The good people at Water.org have a basic vision and mission:
We envision the day when everyone in the world can take a safe drink of water. It is easy to take for granted ready access to a safe supply of drinking water. Yet nearly one billion people lack this most basic commodity. Creating accessible, safe water supplies in developing countries liberates people to live healthier, fuller, more productive lives.
Our Mission
Water.org is challenging the traditional approach to assisting people in developing countries. Our goals are to draw attention to the world’s number one health problem, unsafe and inadequate water supplies, and to raise funds to help fight this immense problem – one community at a time.
Our mission is to inspire people to act:
• Donors – to provide consistent financial resources with a sense of solidarity for those in need of safe water
• Staff and volunteers – to seek innovative and efficient solutions to meeting the global water supply needs of today and tomorrow
• People in need of safe water – to take the lead in meeting their own needs
Together, these people form the “waterpartnership” that will allow us to realize our vision.
Listen or read the first line of their vision one more time:
We envision the day when everyone in the world can take a safe drink of water.
It’s so beautiful. It’s so necessary. It’s so large. I’m in, how about you?
So, today join the 1,000,000 voices who are raising awareness about this.
Remember the words of Jesus that will be heard in many churches this coming Sunday:
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." 11The woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?" 13Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life." 15The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water." John 4
As Peter signs,
“Stirrin' up the water
Stirrin' up my soul
A Light comes to the darkness
Come and make me whole
Oh Stir it up, stir it up, Oh Lord”
join Gary White and Water.org in “stirrin’ it up”
rtg
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