Emphasis Preaching Journal
Sometimes, the most enlightening conversations...
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Sometimes, the most enlightening conversations happen in nursing homes. Fritz talked repeatedly about the "dirty '30s."
"We prayed and prayed for rain," he said in his heavy German accent. "It got to the point where we challenged God, 'Give us an answer now. Send rain now.' Old Pastor Kohlmeir said we mustn't speak that way to God; that God would answer in God's time. But the only answer we got was more wind, more dust, more 'hoppers, and even more neighbors packing up and leaving; moving back east, or heading west. That sure wasn't the answer we wanted.
"We prayed and prayed for rain," he said in his heavy German accent. "It got to the point where we challenged God, 'Give us an answer now. Send rain now.' Old Pastor Kohlmeir said we mustn't speak that way to God; that God would answer in God's time. But the only answer we got was more wind, more dust, more 'hoppers, and even more neighbors packing up and leaving; moving back east, or heading west. That sure wasn't the answer we wanted.
