I just realized it's been several days before I posted anything on here and I didn't want the millions of viewers to continue to be disappointed every morning when they wake up and and run to their computers to check for the new update on Life with the Riggs' only to find another day has passed and still no update. (How's that for a run-on sentence?!)
We haven't had a real eventful week. Hannah and I worked Monday -Wednesday and have had the last two days off. Several of the girls have gone to visit their guardians for a couple of weeks so we are actually down to three girls in the house right now, which makes things seem really quiet!
We bought bikes Wednesday night and tested them out yesterday. There is a biking/running trail that runs along the Fox River across the highway from where we live and there are also a few other riding areas so we are excited to check those out.
I was reading yesterday and ran across this information:
"Sales of bottled water are estimated to be between $50 and $100 Billion (US) annually and increasing approximately 7 to 10 percent annually. In 2004, sales were approximately 154 billion liters (41 billion gallons). It's a strange irony that folks in countries with cheap, readily accessible drinking water spend enough money on bottled water to provide water for the rest of the world." Jesus for President p. 244
This makes me really uncomfortable. I encourage you to think and pray about this with Hannah and I. Maybe you would like to make a donation to help bring clean drinking water to the 1.2 billion people in the world who are dying of thirst. World Vision (worldvision.org)is the organization that we prefer to use.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Random Thoughts
Posted by Hannah Riggs at 8:24 AM
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Interesting comment...
In Uganda our group leaders wouldn't allow us to buy bottled water because we had jerry cans full of clean water from the faucet at school. No one liked that rule because buying bottled water meant for once, it would be cold and refreshing, rather than room temperature, and it wouldn't have any little living creatures floating in it. But, after living with a family and seeing them walk over a mile each way just to fill two small cans of water, we began to realize how much we take the small things, like water, for granted. We were encouraged to look into ministries like World Vision as well and consider what we might do to help. Thanks for sharing that...it's something I think we too often take for granted and forget about.
Betsy- Thanks for sharing your experience! I think it helps us to put a little "meat" on the subject. I have never been in a situation where clean water was not available and like most others it is really easy for me to take it for granted as well. I think it is also easy for us to assume that there really isn't anything we can do about problems like this that are on the other side of the world from us. World Vision and similar organizations not only make this possible but make it very easy to do.
Not to mention the enormous amount of waste that using bottled water produces...
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