You poor children! If God could create you, an incredibly complex being, why on earth couldn't He create a bunch of raindrops where they are needed? His action was no more than that of a good father responding to a request from one of His children on behalf of others in their need. Why must you be so skeptical?

R. Dancause, Dumfries, VA, USA

In 1978, we were approaching our 7th year of drought in Northern California when a local news person asked people to pray to God for rain. The experts said even if it rained it would not make up for the water deficit for years to come...American Indians do rain dances to their Great White Spirit...Beginning in February 1978 we almost had to build an ark...7 years of drought washed away by a sea of prayers and 3 months of constant rain! Experts...try going to the Creator who made rain first.

Faith is believing without reason and against all odds - a free fall into the hands of Divine Providence.

Hope is like a waterfall over the steepest cliff of despair - what a rush!

Charity - courageous love in deeds and not only words slays the worst of fears.

Fear and lamenting are useless, fear is good at obscuring the real solutions and of course fear sells $$$$. Instead of wringing our hands and cursing the darkness make for the light and put your two hands together and PRAY.

Pray 1st!

afrank_usa, Rocklin, CA

Of course it was God allowing the rain to come...it is always God that allows the rain. We no longer believe in a Creator who rules heaven and earth. Now we bow before the great god of science who fails us over and over again.

Eileen, Loveland, CO

Hmmmm....
Is a third possibility totally out of the question?
Or would someone trying to limit others as they have limited theirself?

sam, paduka, ky

There are only two possible reasons: fraud or delusion.

Terry Dell, Weybridge, UK

Actually there is one reason for this: God answers the prayers of his people. Don't let secularism cloud your ability to reason.
Cf. James 5:17,18: "Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. 18Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops."

Austin, Nashville, USA

Every day is a gift from our Creator, and to mock the Almighty is not only foolish but can be eternally fatal.

Eric, Waukegan, IL

my grandmother told me of a time in the American depression when they faced total crop failure because of drought.

the area women met, prayed for rain, and went home immediately to do their laundry before the rain came.

Gramma said she just got her laundry in off the clothes line when a providential rain came.

God answeres sincere prayers.

barbara, Olympia, Washington

Amazing, isn't it, how these rainmakers only get reported when they can calim success? And amazing, too, how superstition increases when the weather gets extreme.

Barry Henderson, London, UK

Religion is really going down and down in his manifestations
now we are at the miracle of the rain, what will be the next?
The dance for rain is typical of africans tribes with very low cultural level but Castell'Arquato is in Emilia-Romagna, one of the richest regions in Italy with a very positive population at a high degree of industralisation. Let's leave miracles to children tales

Roberto Castellano, Salsomaggiore, Italy

Thank you Lord for listening to our prayers...in You and You alone is all power and all-existence. Allejulia Amen Amen Amen

David, Milan , Italy