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I could have seen it as just an incovenicence. It still is. With the bathroom mirror in my living room, a hole in the floor and wall, a vanity removed and no working sink.
But that water swept into my life with a wave of grattitude. After years of seeing commercials and short films of mamas walking for miles to a well, or babies dying for want of water, I needed to be inconvenienced myself to understand.
To appreciate how nearly every hour I refill my bottle with cold, clean water. How I can wash and clean and water at my will. I have so much to be grateful for.
And like most Americans who should live in a sense of constant grattitude and celebratoion, I am ungrateful.
Until a messenger came to snap me out of my bubble via a leak in my bathroom floor.
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Good stuff here. Have you ever looked at the hashtag FirstWorldProblems? We say it as a joke, but it's incredible how we forget what a privilege it is to have plenty of water and a safe place to sleep. Keep it up! :)
ReplyDeleteYes, I have. I totally agree that #FirstWorldProblems has become cliché' but indeed the things we accept as "normal" aren't for most of the world.
ReplyDeleteI faced this when I moved to Africa and spent 2.5 years living without running water. Gratitude? Oh how I learned about it! A shower at a lodge in the capital...like a miracle after months of bucket baths! ;) But even now, back in the US, I'm incredibly grateful for the luxuries that we First World citizens tend to view as necessities.
ReplyDeleteJen, what a unique perspective you've been blessed with. I'm really thankful whenever God gives me the opportunity to be grateful for things I take for granted.
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