(Photo cred: Ron Frazler "Cornfield" ) (Originally written for Douglas County Publishing: Pastor's Meditation July 11, 2017) Season after season, year after year, we find ourselves turning to God, and offering prayers of thanks, petition, even pleading in regard to the weather. In times like right now when we’ll take as much moisture as we can get here in southern South Dakota and I’ve heard about the even drier conditions to our north, we ask God regularly to send rain. That’s the refrain in prayers around dinner tables, coffee groups, Sunday services, and the fields and roads as farmers and people living near farms are reminded again of our dependence upon God. We know it’s not really “Mother Nature” that dictates what happens, though we might sometimes use that language. It’s not random chance that a pressure system goes through one area and storms follow. It’s not the weather people with all their computers and technology putting out radars and predicti
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