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22 March - World Water Day
Photograph by RickAbbott
When I first wrote about World Water Day, upon which we remember that over one billion people in the world today lack clean drinking water, I hadn’t focused on when it falls this year: Easter Saturday, the day after Jesus was tortured to death.
We can imagine the start of that Sabbath day for his disciples. Their agony of grief, despair and fear, the images of his death burned into the eyes of those who witnessed it. Some would have wept, some would have been too numb for weeping.
Just as the parents of a child who has died of the long agony of thirst and disease might be too numb for weeping. And would have no hope of their child’s resurrection.
So this day is a wholly appropriate one for us to mark our grief for those who continue to suffer and die, and our resolve to help things change.
Gandhi said:
Whatever you do will feel insignificant. And it is very important that you do it.
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heartbreaking images…both visual and written. and, the gandhi quote really hits home. may we all be marked by this day.
I am glad to read this post today. Thank you.
profound, tess. a wonderful meditation on holy saturday — that day of silence, numbness and pain. the sabbath of absence. thanks especially for connecting it to World Water day and for that quote from Gandhi.
Gandhi quote - so reassuring to those of us who “waffle” over whether our little bit will help….
xoxox
Thank you for this image … your words … and Gandhi’s quote that I’ve discovered on this Easter Sunday morning.
Hugs and blessings,
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