When clouds bring rain and rivers flow
The farmers know their crops will grow,
For water gives them life.
The corn swells up, the cattle thrive,
The whole of nature is alive,
Providing us with food.
When rainfall fails and earth is dry
The farmers know their crops will die;
No water means no life.
The fields are bare, no herds remain,
The starving search – but search in vain –
For food to stay alive.
What can we do for lands where drought
Leaves farmers and their stock without
The water which is life?
By making gifts to Water Aid
New wells are dug, new channels laid,
And life is brought to birth.
So lives are saved when waters flow;
As lives are saved when people know
The love of God in Christ.
Who drinks the water Jesus brings
Draws from those never-failing springs
And finds eternal life.
William D Horton
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