Ok. So I haven’t let you know a whole lot about my 40 Days of Water journey with blood:water mission in a few days. For those of you who are giving a rats behind. My bad.
Last Wednesday was the week marker. I’d made it a week on just water (except on Sunday…I had 2 Dr Peppers, a Fanta Strawberry, and some tea…). But I was feeling really good about it. I even had someone give me some really great encouragement that night. At that point, I had run more days that I hadn’t throughout the process, and I seemed to be on a great track. I’d learned some cool stuff in the first week, and was excited to continue the process.
The back half of last week rolled around, and I was not feel as gung-ho about the whole thing. I had a big personal discouragement that was my fault, and I remembered how flavorless water was. The first week, I’d been drinking 7 or 8 glasses of water a day. By the end of last week I was down to two or three, and I was feeling sluggish. I got another headache, and I was not happy about it. The caffeine should have been out of my system by now! (I realize that other things cause headaches, but at the time, this is what I chose to blame the situation on.) So I popped another excedrin migraine, and let ti work it’s magic.
I’m going to be completely honest with you. Coming into this week, I was no longer pumped, or thrilled about any of this “drinking only water stuff”, I was more…apathetic. I was going to keep doing it, but not because I really wanted to, because I’d committed to it. Hoping for some inspiration, I decided to go over to the blood:water mission website. It was a nice kick in the seat of the pants.
I remembered that I’m not doing this for you. I’m not even really doing this for me. I’m doing it for families in Uganda. Who I’ve never met. Because Jesus tells us that when we are given much, we have a larger responsibility. I have the option to have tea, soda, coffee, beer, wine, milk, whatever it may be. Simply because I was born into the middle class of a western country. And I have access to as much clean water as my heart desires. People in Majority World countries do not have that luxury. I don’t have the option to not help them have access to clean, safe, drinkable water.
-Stippick
