{"id":50169,"date":"2017-03-24T14:40:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T17:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fraterinternacional.org\/?p=50169\/"},"modified":"2017-05-25T23:08:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T02:08:43","slug":"out-of-love-for-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fraterinternacional.org\/en\/out-of-love-for-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Love for Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The inhabitants of this planet were granted the beauty and the presence of Kingdoms they do not respect or understand yet. The Mineral Kingdom, for example, molds and adorns the Earth with oceans, rivers, waterfalls, where 3% is fresh water and 97% is salt water.<\/p>\n

In Brazil, for example, there is about 12% of the whole fresh water extant on Earth. On the other hand, there are nearly twenty countries that suffer absolute lack of water. Brazilians or not, the inhabitants of this suffering planet benefit in a recurrent way and without parsimony of its natural resources, polluting the waters, exploiting the Mineral, Plant and Animal Kingdoms, expressing oftentimes a great lack of gratitude.<\/p>\n

This mysterious liquid goes way beyond quenching the thirst and \"\"<\/a>making hygiene possible. In order to perceive its mystery, it is necessary to be before it and its magnetism and splendor with respect and openness, to recognize, little by little, what it really is. In the face of water, there should be no other attitude but revere it and use it with parsimony, nourishing the feeling of gratitude in us and thanking it for all good it brings us. Thus, together with the simple act of opening and closing the tap, there should be implicit the effort of now wasting water.<\/p>\n

An example of the practice of not wasting can be the change in little habits:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– upon washing greens, first \u201cwash\u201d with the eyes, checking leaf by leaf. Then place a container to pick the water that falls to use it later to water plants, or wash the floor;<\/p>\n

– upon turning on the shower, place buckets to pick the cold water and use it for toilet flush or washing;<\/p>\n

– use short toilet flush, repair taps and tubes, taking care of these \u201cdetails\u201d that make all the difference;<\/p>\n

– to those who live in condominiums, it is recommended to leave aside the thought that those who save pay for those who do not save, as, in this way, they end up choosing not to save as well. Each one must do what corresponds to them.<\/p>\n

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Our reverence and respect before water, which offers itself for our sustenance, must be kept in an unshakeable manner, even if our neighbor wastes it and overuses it. Likewise, we should be sparing, regardless of the volume of water that we apparently have for consumption.<\/p>\n

With water, we can learn to be flexible and adaptable; with water, we learn to be transparent and to aspire to the purity it represents and radiates.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThe role of the Mineral Kingdom in purification is very clear. In transmutation, we will see what the sea really does for this Planet; and in sustenance, because without water, the Human Kingdom cannot live. So, understand how important this Kingdom is from the evolutionary standpoint: it faithfully fulfills everything for what it was put on this Planet, that is, for purification, transmutation and sustenance\u201d, clarifies Trigueirinho in the series \u201cPlaneta Terra, um Ser em Reden\u00e7\u00e3o\u201d (Planet Earth, a Being in Redemption).<\/p>\n

There are already areas on the Earth where there is no water on the surface. It has been said that from the mark of 6 billion inhabitants, the planet would suffer a chronic lack of water. Depleted, the planet carries more than 7 billion people, which has drastically increased the demand and aggravated the conflicts caused and attributed, by those involved in the conflicts, to the relative lack of water.<\/p>\n

Would this humanity be ready to survive if water withdrew itself? We could we make an exercise concerning water consumption: let us imagine ourselves with little resources, needing to revise our daily habits. The moment requires tour vigilance and attention in the apparently simple acts, such as that of opening a tap, turning on the light, or an electronic device, adapting our uses to the real need.<\/p>\n

While thousands of people scattered throughout the world, without access to water, look at the sky clamoring for rain, or resign and see expressions of life wither day by day, we suggest a reflection: let us seek the available instruction on the Kingdoms, on water and on a correct relationship with it, on its importance in everyone\u2019s life. May compassion invoke in each one the need to look after, not to wast \u201cnot even one drop\u201d.<\/p>\n

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May water not be seen and treated just as an essential good to life, to health, to the economy, to the industry or to agriculture. It offers, itself, but so that we may perceive it as something way beyond that which is seen running from the taps.<\/p>\n

May we learn to love it and may we receive it with parsimony and gratitude, as a sacred element. When touching it, let us touch the fingers of God.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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