So the sky dribbles the millions of pounds of water down in little drops. If it dumped millions of pounds of water on the farm, the wheat would be crushed. So the sky picks up millions of pounds of water from the sea, takes out the salt, carries the water (or whatever it is, when it is not water) for three hundred miles, and then dumps it (now turned into water again) on the farm? What about the salt? Well, the salt has to be taken out. What about the salt? Salt? Yes, the Mediterranean Sea is saltwater. What’s that? The water starts becoming water again by gathering around little dust particles between.

Then how does it get down? Well, condensation happens. What’s it mean? It means that the water stops being water for a while so it can go up and not down. So how does it get up in the sky and stay up there if it’s so heavy? Well, it gets up there by evaporation. Carried? How much does it weigh? Well, if one inch of rain falls on one square mile of farmland during the night, that would be 2,323,200 cubic feet of water, which is 17,377,536 gallons, which is 144,735,360 pounds of water. Water will have to be carried in the sky from the Mediterranean Sea over several hundred miles, and then be poured out on the fields from the sky. The sky? Water will come out of the clear blue sky? Well, not exactly. But if the crops are to grow and the family is to be fed from month to month, water has to come from another source on the fields. A few wells keep the family and animals supplied with water. Is rain a great and unsearchable wonder wrought by God? Picture yourself as a farmer in the Near East, far from any lake or stream. I decided to have a conversation with myself (which is what I mean by meditation). So when I read this a few weeks ago, I resolved not to treat it as meaningless pop musical lyrics. He gives rain on the earth.’ (Job 5:8-10) In Job’s mind rain really is one of the great, unsearchable wonders that God does. “‘God does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

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