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While getting my hair cut on Friday, my mother and my hairdresser, at one point, were discussing the necessity for people of faith to pray for rain (in the context of their own faith). I didn't come straight out and say it (I danced around the subject, posing questions without condemning their choices - I got some thoughtful responses), but my opinion on the subject is that praying only for rain is choosing to be a child who has a parent/god-figure to take care of everything. Far better to pray that we learn everything the lack of rain has to teach us, with as little pain as is necessary to get the point across.

IMO, until one learns the lessons drought has to teach us, it will keep catching us unawares and unprepared, and not taking responsibility for our actions and lack of action. And this is true no matter what one believes.