Letters February 10, 2003 Issue

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with contributions from Beverly Goldsmith, Ron Walker, Janet Wright, Jeannette Riechers

Thank you so much for printing my article, "Australia—just a prayer away" (December 30, 2002).

I have been overwhelmed by the number of Sentinel readers who have taken the time to e-mail, telephone, and message-text me from as far away as Cape Town in South Africa; Georgia, Maryland, Southern California, San Francisco, and Boston in the United States; as well as Adelaide in South Australia. The outpouring of love for the people in Australia who have been affected by years of drought is amazing and deeply touching. I am so grateful for all the ideas that everyone has shared with me and for the prayer that I know is taking place.

Since I wrote about the devastating drought, I'm pleased to say that we've had several inches of good rainfall in areas across Australia where it's been so badly needed. Farmers have had their rainwater tanks for drinking, cooking, and washing purposes refilled. Dams [water holes] have received water, and some farming properties now have sufficient moisture to begin planting winter crops—something that didn't look possible before Christmas and wasn't predicted by weather forecasters to occur until March 2003.

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