Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Water Towers

January 21

Driving the rugged arid parts of Arizona and Colorado, I notice a single pile of rocks up on top of a mesa. I learn that these are called "water towers." These rocks tell travelers below that from this point you can see water.

Those Native Americans and pioneers who erected these water towers more than a century ago were pointing the way to survival for whoever followed after them. The water towers are no longer needed but stand as monuments of brotherly love. I need to be a water tower to my neighbors.

"You shall love your neighbor as yourself." (Matthew 23:39)

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