A recent WordPress daily prompt asked, “What is one luxury you can’t live without?”
When there’s a hurricane and the power is out for a few days, you learn what you can live without. Without electricity, there’s only candles after sunset, no wifi or cellular service, no streaming, no ice for drinks, no air conditioning or fans, no hot water for a shower. Everything is closed, so there’s nowhere to go.
I can get along with non-perishable food for a few days. I don’t mind drinking bottled water on mission trips. But the first question my wife and I ask when a storm knocks out the power is, “How are we going to make coffee in the morning?” If there’s no power to work the coffeemaker, I can boil water over a propane burner for some pour-over or instant coffee. I guess coffee is the luxury I wouldn’t want to live without.
A close second would be ice. Drinks pulled out of an ice-filled cooler or poured over ice into a glass are just so good. It doesn’t have to be a fancy beverage. Tap water over ice is delicious after yard work on a hot day.
It’s easy to forget how many luxuries we enjoy. I’m grateful for havingso much more than life’s necessities of food, water, shelter, and clothing.
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