Living Water...a parable I understand more clearly now...
Meet Raiana and Ravidson, children from Mindelo on the Island of Sao Vicente. I watched them hand tiny yellow 'just-picked' flowers in trade for filling their containers at the home of our friends, the Brodericks, (humanitarian missionaries here in Cabo Verde). The church is starting a water project here on Fogo that will provide water to over 900 homes. The Brodericks are staying with us for a week to open up that project.
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The sound of laughter and heavy rain drew me to the window early one morning to our neighbors playing and bathing with delight!
Many people take containers to the water stations and wait for their water. (photo of water station below was taken by Brodericks' daughter, Elizabeth.) |
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| WATER...comes to Cabo Verde two months of the year in the form of heavy rains that fill the streets, the buckets, the cement cisterns, and the hope of this people. Seeds have been planted up and down the volcanic hills for the past two months. Many live off the land, praying for the water that will miraculously open tiny seeds into hard work and eventually food. The water stored will be used for the next 10 not-a-drop-of-rain months. It is a celebration of sorts to witness the joy of the rains. Children run under the spouts, laughing as they jump in and out of the full water barrels; they float sticks and leaves in the flooded streets that have become mini-rivers just for the wading! Cabo Verdianos wash themselves in the water and collect it as a limited edition for the treasure that it is. They throw open their arms and embrace it. They dance in it with umbrellas and we all mop out our casas from the lakes and leaks that are part of this place. We had water running through a leak in the roof into the bathroom and out the electrical sockets in the living room. The electrician put a bit of packing tape over the pipe on the roof which helped the flood in the frontroom a bit for now! (Ha!) He told us we need a new roof when the rains stop...(we smile and nod all the time!) and in between "the sun comes up and dries up all the rain". |
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'hunger and
thirst' after righteousness is a profound invitation.
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Doctrine and Covenants 10: 66
Revelations 21: 6-7 |
Meet Raiana and Ravidson, children from Mindelo on the Island of Sao Vicente. I watched them hand tiny yellow 'just-picked' flowers in trade for filling their containers at the home of our friends, the Brodericks, (humanitarian missionaries here in Cabo Verde). The church is starting a water project here on Fogo that will provide water to over 900 homes. The Brodericks are staying with us for a week to open up that project. 
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