Water becomes a sword.

Each and every day we go through our routine without thinking about it. We wash ourselves, our dishes, and even our cars. We cook with it, make coffee with it, and of course, we drink it. Water has always been central to our daily life because it is the foundation of life itself.

Many of us, still submerged in the spirits of Christmas , were awakened to a new reality of water as reports came in from Asia. We had seen the destructive side of water as floods in our own country, yet with each passing day, it became ever more difficult to relate what happened in Asia to our own experience.
Not in our lifetime has the ocean become such an efficient sword, killing tens of thousands of people from many nations over thousands of kilometers. The kind of chaos we have witnessed is usually reserved for the destructive power of man and the weapons of mass destruction we posses.

As we continue to help the people whose world was torn apart and destroyed by the very substance that gives us life, we should reflect upon the need to continue to hold that kind of destructive power in our own hands.