May 4th, 2010 
dave if you haven’t turned on your tv or radio lately, you may not have heard that boston and its surrounding communities have been without clean drinking water since friday, and may be without it for a few more days. there was a major leak in the 10 foot pipe that brings water from western mass to the boston area, so there is no drinking water available from the tap, unless of course you boil it and stick it in the fridge for a while.
as you might expect, people are feeling slightly inconvenienced.
stores have been flooded for bottled water and they are running out quickly. many people from boston drove all the way to new hampshire just to buy bottled water!
one of the more interesting quotes i have heard during this predicament was from a woman on the radio who was a wee bit perturbed after going to the town of belmont to get some clean water. unfortunately, she was not able to get any water from them since she was not a resident of that town. her quote: “what do you mean i can’t get water here?! this is america!”
apparently americans are supposed to be immune from the issues that the rest of the world deals with on a daily basis.
i think this was a bit of a wake up call for the people of boston.
simply because we live in america, we expect everything to be at our fingertips. we have been so spoiled that we actually believe we deserve everything we have available to us. it is time for us to realize that our privileges are made available to us at the cost of many around the world who have no concept of what clean drinking water even looks like.
i mean, just look at our supermarkets. we could feed a few hundred villages with all the food we throw away because it gets out of date before it is bought in the store!
as people of privilege, not only are we obligated to take care of people around the world who don’t have the luxuries that we do at their doorstep, we should desire justice for them.
we have been given much and much is expected of us who know the way of Christ. whether in little or in plenty, we are called to feed those who can’t feed themselves and to bring water to those who have none to drink. may we learn from this minor inconvenience of ours that there are millions who deal with this time 100 every day of their lives.
a great organization to check out if you are interested in more information is the bloodwater mission.
matthew 25:35: “for i was hungry and you gave me food, i was thirsty and you gave me drink, i was a stranger and you welcomed me…”
-dave-
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