Flavorless.
Water is absolutely flavorless. I don’t know if you knew that about water or not, but now you do.
I hadn’t ever really thought about it much until this morning when I woke up and drank a glass. I am on day three of 40 Days of Water with the folks over at blood:water mission. So I wake up, drag myself to the kitchen, and am downing the glass of water, and my initial reaction is that I want to spit it back up. I wanted something with flavor. I needed something with flavor.
My next two reactions were these:
1) I am pathetic. It’s just water for 40 days. I should be thankful for how much water I have access to. And, It’s very western culture of me to think that everything should have “flavor”. Not just food and drink, but everything. And there should be all kinds of “flavors” so that I can find the one that I like best.
2) I was reminded of the command that Christ followers have to be the salt of the world. In Matthew 5:13, Jesus calls his followers the salt of the world. I’ve heard several sermons preached on this, and I’m sure a lot of you have too…but I don’t think I got it until I got tired of the blandness of water. Salt adds flavor. As a follower of Christ, I am called to be salt. To add flavor to the world. The flavor of what? I didn’t know off the top of my head honestly. I had to think about it for a few hours, and I had to filter through some church answers until I landed on one. I need to be adding the flavor of Christ. The flavor of salvation that can only be found in Him. And that sounds like a super duper church answer. But…It’s the truth. All of my actions, words, thoughts, etc…should point to Him, and who He is, and what He offers. I was thankful for the ordinariness of my water this morning.
In other news. I went to a soccer game this evening, and it took a lot of self control not to order some hot coco to warm my body. I thought about crying. Instead, I tweeted blood:water mission to let them know I was suffering for the cause. I enjoyed the games though, I got to watch some students doing what they love to do, and I am passionate about supporting them in whatever they’re passionate about.
Then, I went to see Shutter Island on my “date” for the Shockwave Love series. While there, I ordered a Mr. Pibb…and was reminded by my date that I’m only drinking water. Twice in one nigh? That is a little sad. Shutter Island though, was an EXCELLENT movie. It may have made it into my top five movies of all time.
That’s all the happenings of Day 3 in my 40 Days of water with blood:water mission folks! Hope you had a great day!
-Stippick
