The weather prayer

AP:

A storm system crashed through the Southeast and brought up to an inch of rain in parts of drought-stricken Georgia, but forecasters said the storm likely did little to ease the state's historic drought.

The rain late Wednesday and early Thursday brought some precipitation to the parched hills of northern Georgia. The showers began a day after Gov. Sonny Perdue led a prayer service on the steps of the state Capitol to beg the heavens to end the drought.

"Certainly, we're not gloating about it," Perdue said from a trade mission in Canada. "We're thankful for the rain and hopefully it's the beginning of more. ... Frankly, it's great affirmation of what we asked for."

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The National Weather Service says more prayers are needed to get enough to break the drought.

During World War II Gen. George Patton asked his chaplain for a weather prayer to get the rain to stop and the clouds to lift so that he could move his forces into a position to break the siege at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. When the clouds lifted and he moved to contact he told his aid to make sure the Chaplain got a medal.

"Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to restrain these immoderate rains with which we have had to contend. Grant us fair weather for Battle. Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory, and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies, and establish Thy justice among men and nations. Amen."

Would that everyone recognized the wickedness of our current enemies and joined us in defeating them.