freshwater

while we didn't get the snow students prayed for, we did get rain. while i am working so very hard at appreciating january, my oh-so-very-smart friend quizzed me over dinner fresh from their elementary science class lesson. "do you know how much of the world is fresh water?" she asked. my guess was 60% salt, 30% ice and 10% freshwater. "one percent." she said, "that's it. the earth contains only 1% fresh water." that's a whole new way to look at rain. and, when we got out of the car at my house, the fresh water was running. bubbling up through gravel, singing; trickling down the driveway, creating it's own path south towards the springs. timing with reading i swear is everything--every book and phrase, sentence and word seems to have it's moment. so i laughed out loud at this psalm reading which happened to be for today, the torrents continuing to hail their symphony of wet. "You visit the earth and cause it to overflow; the stream of God is full of water; You water its furrows abundantly, you settle its ridges, you soften it with showers, you bless its growth...the hills meadows and valleys they shout for joy, yes, they sing." i've kept my windows open today and gone outside deliberately to listen to this singing. it makes me appreciate the 1%.