Seven Weeks for Water 2021, Holy Week: “Healing the water heals the wounds of the earth and its people”
March 31, 2021
REFLECTIONMarch 29, 2021Seven weeks for water7 Weeks 2021 Share this document Ecumenical Water Network Text: Isaiah 42:1-9 There’s a town in the Central Valley of California named Allensworth. It’s a few hours from most anywhere and is easily missed in the web of state highways and wandering local roads that are bent this way and that by plots of almond groves. The land is hard. Harder than it should be. Harder than it’s ever been. Decades of water-intensive farming by hedge fund managers and farmers who don’t have the moral imagination to look past tomorrow’s dollar have drained the land. So has