2.26.2009

A Challenge: 40 Days of Water


I came across this site a few days ago and it's been ruminating in my mind ever since. The basic premise of the 40 Days of Water Challenge is to have only water as a beverage for 40 days, from March 1st to April 9th. You then save the money you would have spent, and donate it to Blood:Water Mission, a ministry begun by Jars of Clay. From the website:

Blood:Water Mission exists to promote clean blood and clean water efforts in Africa, tangibly reducing the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic while addressing the underlying issues of poverty, injustice and oppression. Blood:Water Mission is building clean water wells, supporting medical facilities, and focusing on community and worldview transformation, both here in America and in Africa.


Here's an excerpt from the 40 Days of Water Challenge:

We have the gift of choice: Freedom to choose on any given day what clothes we will wear, what work we will do, what food we will eat and what we will drink. In nearly a third of the world injustice threatens to take away these basic kinds of choices that we take for granted. In these places a woman can choose to drink the unclean river water or the unclean puddle water. She can choose to walk once for four hours to get water or walk twice for eight hours to get more water. She can choose to give her children something to drink that she knows may make them sick or she can give them nothing at all. She can persist or give up. You can help give her a real choice.


Yesterday, I found myself faced with this question:

Why would I NOT participate in the challenge?


Well, when you put it that way . . .

So two more days of feeding my Dr Pepper crave, and then it's nothing but water.

3 comments:

Kaylia Metcalfe said...

What a neat idea.

Besides water I drink a bit of tea and a lot of milk... it is one of the only healthy things I do.

I must give it some thought, but I might join you in this project...

Anonymous said...

I'm in! =)
Dianna

GammySel said...

you are on day 3 of your water only challenge- tell me how is it going?
Angie

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