Posted on 07/25/2006 11:38:31 AM PDT by E-Mat
LUBBOCK, Texas, July 24 (UPI) -- Public officials in Lubbock, Texas, are organizing a day to pray for rain.
"Nobody is going to tell God what to do and what not to do, but we are in a serious drought in West Texas and since he is the man who controls the rain clouds, we're asking him for his mercy and his help," Mayor David Miller told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
The City Council and the Lubbock County commissioners are expected to adopt resolutions this week asking local residents to both pray and fast for rain this Sunday.
So far this year, Lubbock has received about half of its normal 10 inches. In the weeks since June 1, the growing season for cotton, rainfall has been a scant .75 inches, far less than the normal 4.43 inches.
Officials have tried prayers before and say they were answered. In January 2004, after a year of drought, the city and county set aside a Sunday to pray for rain and got the second-wettest year since records have been kept.
Has the ACLU heard about this?
Lubbock is considered a very conservative town in Texas. Its main attraction is Texas Tech University, considered more conservative now than Baylor, SMU, Texas A&M and Texas Christian University. My son, who plans to go to seminary after his undergrad degree, starts there this fall along with 4 friends from our church.
Didn't they just caught a fish with human-like teeth in or near Lubbock, TX? It was on FR another day. Traditionally, monsters, signs and prodigies like that surely demand more than a day of prayer - Lubbock needs to declare public fasting, and have penitential processions with flagellations and hair-shirts. The processions are to be barefooted and ought to proceed on their knees, too.
At last, some sanity in government! Prayers offered up for their wishes to be answered.
As my dad once told me as we were driving across the flat plains of West Texas towards Lubbock: "Texans spend 80% praying for it to rain, and 20% praying for it to stop; once it starts to rain, it doesn't want to stop."
Officials have tried prayers before and say they were answered. In January 2004, after a year of drought, the city and county set aside a Sunday to pray for rain and got the second-wettest year since records have been kept.
Best of luck; Tech and Lubbock were a fantastic place, west Texans are great people.
If you pray for rain...you had better be caring an umbrella.
Your poor son . . . the only thing that keeps Lubbock from being the armpit of Texas is El Paso.
Seriously, Tech is a great school, but you cannot get more in the middle of nowhere than Lubbock.
"Seriously, Tech is a great school, but you cannot get more in the middle of nowhere than Lubbock.
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Oh, I don't know. Try San Angelo.
What always puzzled me was seeing both football teams in high school praying before the game in a huddle. Did that mean that the one that won was the one God favored?
I live in central Texas (about 5 hours from Lubbock). We always prayed in our huddle before games, but we never prayed for victory.
I guess most coaches realize God can't grant that prayer for both teams.
If it rains right after the air is full of dust, it rains red mud.
Guns up!!!
There's an interesting book that is being released in October with the title Where Was God? The author is Dr. Erwin Lutzer, the pastor at the Moody Church in Chicago. Lutzer tries to explain biblically God's role in natural disasters. This is from the same publisher that is doing the recent Joel Rosenberg titles.
High school football is deadly serious in small Texas towns. It is more important than the Super Bowl and whatever Nascar's ultimate event is. God is surely on the winning side. (I had relatives in Sweeny when it was still a championship team.)
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