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\"12-30-15<\/a><\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 We were just looking for you!<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 What do you need?<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 My friend would like to hear an encouraging story.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Well this story comes from the book Stories for the Heart complied by Alice Gray<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

As the drought continued for what seemed an eternity, a small community of Midwest farmers were in a quandary as to what to do.\u00a0 The rain was important not only in order to keep the crops healthy, but to sustain the townspeople’s very way of living.\u00a0 As the problem become more urgent, the local church felt it was time to get involved and planned a prayer meeting in order to ask for rain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In what seemed a vague remembrance of an old Native American ritual, the people began to show.\u00a0 The pastor soon arrived and watched as his congregation continued to file in.\u00a0 He slowly circulated from group to group as he made his way to the front in order to officially begin the meeting.\u00a0 Everyone he encountered was visiting across the aisles, enjoying the chance to socialize with their close friends.\u00a0 As the pastor finally secured his place in front of his flock, his thoughts were on the importance of quieting the crowd and starting the meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just as he began asking for quiet, he noticed an eleven-year-old girl sitting in the front row.\u00a0 She was angelically beaming with excitement and laying next to her was her bright red umbrella, poised for use.\u00a0 The beauty and innocence of this sight made the pastor smile to himself as he realized the faith this young girl possessed that the rest of the people in the room seemed to have forgotten.\u00a0 For the rest had come just to pray for rain…she had come to see God answer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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retold by Tania Gray<\/p>\n

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Hebrews 12:11<\/p>\n

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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