Ramon Billhimer was on a bus in Uganda. A 65-year-old on a church mission trip, Billhimer was looking out the window when she saw a little girl drawing polluted, still water from a ditch. She mentioned to the trip translator that the child had traveled far to get water for her family’s animals. The translator explained that she hadn’t. The dirty water was for her family to drink.

Billhimer couldn’t stop thinking about the girl and the many other children she met who were ill from unclean water. After meeting a child in a Ugandan hospital who died of dysentery a few days later, Ramon cried out to God, asking him why he wouldn’t do anything. In a recent CT article, Billhimer says she heard a response: Why don’t you?

In the 20 years since, Billhimer and her husband, Bob, have provided 858 wells in the eastern region of Uganda. For them, dirty water was a burning bush—an invitation to carry out God’s work in the world.

May we keep our eyes open for the burning bushes in our paths, looking for the opportunities God gives us to bless others as he blesses us.