Don’t drink dirty water!

While that first note was, in fact, good advice, it isn’t one of my actual notes to self. In retrospect, maybe it should have been included, because dirty water is exactly what I’ve been drinking ever since our pipes shattered.

Can you believe that it has been over a month now, since we had that freeze. Though we have cold water coming through, in one of the sinks, I don’t think the pipes that it comes through, are sealed and clean.

It occurred to me the other day, as I was drinking my peppermint tea I made with tap water, that maybe microwaving it wasn’t sanitary enough for it to be drinkable.

You know how I was sick earlier this week? This is the third week in a row that I have not felt well. I think I may have been contaminating my system with dirty drinking water. I’m not saying that we are drinking poison water, but my IBS has been a constant now for nearly 15 years, so drinking unfiltered tap water is enough to knock me to my knees.

Dirty water making its way onto the list of hardships we are facing, seems hardly noteworthy, but it does tend to make one suffer a bit. Stepping back and looking at the overall ugliness of things, a busted water system actually registers at the back of the line.

Note To Self #26 comes in more handy than you think… and I sometimes have to read it several times a month, when pressures rise.

“And the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.” 1 Peter 5:10