[Marcella]

Sorry to hear about the water in your house. When I lived in my townhouse, I came downstairs one morning and there was water over the whole living area. Something had collapsed inside the chimney at the top and we had 6 inches of rain that night and it came down the chimney right into the house. I looked at it and sat down, thinking, “What do I do right now this minute to fix this?” I had brain freeze at that moment. It did get fixed, but I never want to go through that again.

Water always wants to go somewhere. If it finds the smallest crack, it's going there. Another thing about water - a drop weighs nothing but a gallon weighs 8 pounds. You can't live more than 3 days without water before your body starts dying. You have to have it but it is a destructive force if left on its own.

Something else about water - in the Garden of Eden, there was no rain - the plants were nourished by a mist that came from the ground every morning to give them water.

Genesis 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

Genesis 2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

When Adam and Eve were put out of the garden, rain came down on the earth. They were told they had to toil the soil now in order to eat.

See, if Eve hadn't eaten that fruit, your gardens would be nourished by that mist out of the ground.

[trisham]

That must have been horrible! We may not be able to live without water, but it can be deadly, too.