The first 19 years of my life was spent growing up in Egypt, and there, the vast population,

about 90 plus percent of them, they live right on that narrow strip of the River Nile,

because the rest of it is just desert. The River Nile has been there for thousands of years.

In fact, it's mentioned in the Old Testament several times.

But what many people don't know is that for those thousands of years until the 1960s, the Nile used to flood every year methodically,

systematically.

You always knew in the fall there's going to be a flood, and the land is going to be covered

with water.

September, October, around that time, the land is covered completely.

This annual flood brought with it silt which enriched the soil and the land with vibrance.

Every year, that flood brought sediment that made the crops to be the most nutrient-rich

crops in the whole world.

That's a fact.

That flood brought with it prosperity to the farms.

It brought with it all sorts of blessings and benefits.

But what happened in the 60s, the government, in its foolish wisdom, decided to build a dam south of the country, known as the Aswan

Dam. As soon as that dam was built, the flood stopped completely. Stopped. The blessings that

that that flood brought with it stopped. All the glorious riches that this silt

brought with it stopped. And today they use chemical fertilizers and chemical this and chemical

that which they say is extremely harmful. Denial is still there, still overflows within its banks, but the flood

is gone. The blessing is gone. The Nile keeps on flowing, but all the great things that this

flood brought is no more. And as I reflected from my personal experience

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