I believe in the power of prayer and fasting to invoke the blessings from heaven.
As such, I will follow Gov. Cox’s admonition to plead for providential intervention to save us from our deadly drought.
However, as I rise from my knees, I get up on my feet, believing this state must and can do more.
Perhaps one result of a state-wide prayer is not rain but an awakening celestial vision that we live in a desert.
The answer to the governor’s call for prayer would be the people’s call for a plan.
What are we doing to reduce water-hungry agriculture? Israel can teach us a lot.
What are we asked to do with our out-of-place lawns? Our Kentucky bluegrass is a long way from home. I stand condemned.
What are we doing to recycle water -- either using “gray water” or the complete purification of wastewater?
What are we doing with large plots of little-used sports fields? If converted into gardens, they could feed the hungry of the state.
The pioneers came to the great wilderness to make it prophetically blossom as a rose.
What would happen if we converted all the grass strips between streets and sidewalks into the biblical rose gardens?
I pray for rain. I also pray that with Gov. Cox’s leadership, we will get up on our feet and do something bold, grand, and beautiful, fulfilling the words of Isaiah 35:1.
Joseph Grant Cramer, Murray