Appreciation of Water

With a water main break last week, it reminded me again how fortunate we are to have access to clean drinking water just by turning on the faucet.  I often think of how lucky we are each day while I wash a dish, brush my teeth or take a shower.  In many parts of our world, people go without clean water most of their lives.  They might walk miles a day just for a gallon or 2 of dirty water.  Can you imagine the stress of doing that every day? 



Last week, we were inconvenienced for a few days needing to boil our water before we drank it or brushed our teeth with it.  It made me irritable that I needed to do this as it was a busy week and I didn't have time to do this manual task.  But my water still flowed freely so I could shower and I luxuriated in a dip in our pool yesterday.  So I will remind myself again how lucky we are and think of those less fortunate throughout the world.  Be grateful, be thankful.  Hopefully some day everyone will have access to water.  And if we are without for a few days, maybe it is meant to be a helpful reminder.