When I can't think of anything else new to blog about, I can always blog about the weather. Right now Mother Nature is putting on a pretty good show, with rain gushing down outside my windows.
It has been such a long dry summer (until two days ago) that I'm really enjoying the rain. As i sat in our nice cool air conditioned church this morning I had a flashback to hot summer Sundays when I was a child.
There was no such thing as air conditioning in our church but we did have fans. If you are of a certain age you may remember the hand held fans that were in the hymnal racks in the summer time. Rectangular shaped with rounded corners and a wooden handle. Picture a giant fudgesicle only flatter. The ones in our church were provided by the local funeral home (handy if someone expired from the heat. or the energy required to get some cooling from that fan). There was an advertisement for the funeral home on one side of the fan, and a picture of Jesus on the other. Interesting to look at when you were too young to really care about the sermon.
I also remember from those long ago Sundays, the fervent prayers that would be offered for rain during a long dry spell. We had lots of farmers in our congregation. I don't think I've ever heard a prayer for rain in the down town church that I attend now. I'm not sure anyone actually prays for rain anymore, with the relatively accurate weather reports telling us when the rain will come. But if somewhere, in some small country church, that prayer went up last Sunday, it has certainly been answered.
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