let the rains come...please

it looks like it might rain. the weather channel is saying it will rain. the clouds have hung around all day. it just might rain. we need it. everyone needs it. my hometown of atlanta needs it...badly.

the other day a woman told me about taking her kids to see the reservoir that serves their town. you can see the bottom of it in most places. it's full of mud more than water. the kids got it. they stopped running extra water. there's a dad in the area that has apparently taken to timing his kids' showers. 5 minutes. he gives you a two minute warning. friends of our from church are taking their laundry to the laundromat in the town that is not running out of water...because their well is close to being dry. then, they won't have any water at their house. at all.

i think we don't usually understand the power of calling Christ the water of life...that never runs dry. folks who would've walked a ways to get water and then carried it back to their homes to drink and bathe and clean would've understood how important water is.

maybe we will, too.