Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain or fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for an eclipse by prayer?

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

And those who pray for dew on the deserts edge; shall bring forth the deluge.

As soon as the earth’s crust cooled enough, the rains began to fall. Never have there been such rains since that time. They fell continuously, day and night, days passing into months, into years, into centuries. They poured into the waiting ocean basins, or, falling upon the continental masses, drained away to become sea.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.

Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God’s thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him.

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

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If it should rain — (the sneezy moon
Said: Rain) — then I shall hear it soon
From shingles into gutters fall...
And know of what concerns me, all:

The garden will be wet till noon — I may not walk — my temper leans
To myths and legends — through the beans
Till they are dried — lest I should spread
Diseases they have never had.

I hear the rain: it comes down straight.
Now I can sleep, I need not wait
To close the windows anywhere.

Tomorrow, it may be, I might
Do things to set the whole world right.
There's nothing I can do tonight.

Be like the earth. When the rain comes, the earth simply opens up to the rain and soaks it all in.

When I have to die, I would like to die
on a day of rain -
long rain, slow rain, the kind you think will never end.

Into each life some rain must fall.

God is in the rain.