Month 3.

Hard to believe June has arrived.  Not quite sure where the month of May went; it seemed to have flown by in a flash, though!

Thanks so much to all of you who donated last month; and many thanks to those of you who are just now joining us to 'live without' in order to help provide clean water to those truly living without.

June is already in full swing, and so is a new LIVE without challenge!

 

This month we are encouraging each other to live without 'entertainment.'

 

We have to admit, it was quite convicting as we discussed the countless ways and things we could live without this month.

Entertainment is a broad category.  Here are just a few of the items we came up with that fall into the entertainment category:

Movies

Music (CD's/downloads, concerts etc.)

Gaming (video, online, phone games)

Theater productions

Amusement parks

Monthly subscriptions (netflix, movie channels, magazines)

And the list goes on and on. 

Keep in mind, these are just ideas to get you thinking of how this month's challenge may apply to your life.

As with all of the LIVE without challenges, we encourage you to take this challenge and make it personal and relevant to your life.  

Richard Stearns sums it up, quite perfectly, with this quote:

"I can imagine my own life without many of the so-called necessities that I have. You can take away my car and I would find a way to compensate by using public transportation and carpooling with a friend. You could take away my computer and my Internet access, my television, stereo and radio, and I could still have a full and prosperous life. You could reduce the size of my house and my income in half, and even take away my education and I could survive and perhaps thrive. But if you take away water and sanitation, you take away my health and that of my children. If you take away my health, you have taken away my energy and my industry. If you take away my energy and my ability to support my family, you have taken away my dignity; and if you take away my dignity, you have taken away hope—for the future, for my children, for a better life. This is the harsh reality of more than one billion people in the world who live without access to clean, safe water."

Let's see what we can do together this month to help ease the burden of the one billion thirsty currently living without access to clean and safe water.  

Join us.  LIVE without.