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Last night I fell asleep to sweet welcome sound of falling rain. We in the upstate of South Carolina have been in a drought but certainly nothing like Georgia's. On the news this morning I heard of the prayer service that Georgia's Governor Perdue led specifically to plea for rain. This is certainly not an original idea. The Bible has several stories of praying for rain and praying for no rain, and what about those American Indians and their rain dances that we learned about in elementary school. So why not collectively pray for rain! Maybe the Georgia capital prayer story would not have made the news in a positive way if no rain had followed within 48 hours, but, well...it seems the prayers were answered. And a nice rain it was, too. I appreciate even the small amount of news coverage it received. Too often news stories are from a small and fragmented edge and whose intentions seem to be to antagonize and stir up gossip and dissent. I prefer not to label those folks as being on a particular political or social wing, but I see them as not grounded in the truth. That in turn causes them to be confused and lost, which then makes them vulnerable to believe anything, at least for a season. But this is a story from the grounded side. The Bible tells us that "the fervent prayers of a righteous man are powerful and effective." Now that is good news!