They are ashamed and dismayed and cover their heads, because the ground is cracked. Even the doe in the field forsakes her newborn fawn because there is no grass. We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the iniquity of our ancestors, for we have sinned against you. We set our hope on you, for it is you who do all this.
Servants come to cisterns and find no water for human use.
The ground is cracked from dryness and farmers are dismayed. The deer cannot feed themselves or nurse their fawns and the wild asses die from lack of vegetation. Water makes the difference between dry barren desolation where crops and vegetation fail and wild animals starve, and the green lush pastures where green plants grow to provide food to sustain all life. She originally wrote this reflection in 1998. Helen and we welcome your comments.