A message which says God's people must sometimes endure suffering and shortage is definitely out of fashion today. I wonder how believers in Somalia, or in Bosnia, or in Grozny would respond to suggestions that their impoverished condition, their sickness and suffering, is the direct result of deficient faith. I'll leave the veracity of that statement to the linguists. And those are only the words that I understand. In a few centuries the firn will be called a glacier.
Fresh snow falls each year on nearly one-fourth of the earth's dry land surface.
In our hemisphere it falls on one square mile out of two. Around the world, one-third of all the water used for irrigation comes from snow. In the western part of the United States, that figure jumps to 75 percent. Farmers can count on snow in winter a lot more than they can count on rain in spring or summer. That would put all of Georgia knee-deep under water.