"If I were rain, I would go where water cannot be found"

So, I started a blog. I've been toying with the idea for a few months and I've finally given in. I am going to have to ease into this whole thing, so please bear with me and show me some grace on punctuation and typos etc. Also a forewarning: most of the content of my blog will be other people's brilliant and beautiful words, not my own (because writing was never my thing).

"If I were rain I would go where water cannot be found". These are the words of a 12 year old, Rani, from the book (suprsingly enough) "If I were rain" which tells the struggles of children in India through their own words.

Anyway, I love how kids can be so simple yet so insightful. It seems so obvious, that resources should go to those who don't have. Water (along with a number of other resources) should run to those who don't have it, yet somehow things have gotten complicated for us.

This quote comes alive to me as I think of the children I met in Kolkata this summer who knew the reality of living "where water cannot be found". In Besanti Colony, a slum in Kolkata, the children drank from water bottles tinted brown. It breaks my heart to think of these kids losing their childhood. These kids had so many worries. What was I thinking about when I was 12? Not what I was going to eat that day or where I would sleep .

At the same time, I am sitting here now remembering to the moments of joy I experienced with these kids as I saw them reclaim their childhood and just be kids. I see their faces, grinning ear to ear as they run through the streets of Kolkata chasing one another. I see their grins as they dance around with pride laughing at each other.

I could go on forever thinking about how precious the kids were! But in all seriousness, Rani's words inspire me to go where water cannot be found. These words move me to love where love is not found and to bring peace where there is no peace.