Still dependent

Lately we have been very busy with planning and planting rice. Our desire for many years has been to grow our own crops and then feed our orphans and the hungry children in the feeding centers. It is no secret that Haiti still is and probably will be a place of shaky politics for a long time. So for years Mark and I have been thinking to make Matthew 28 in Haiti less dependent on foreign money. Now part of that maybe a pipe dream and I am fully aware of that. Working on more independence is however not a bad thing and so we plan and plot for it. You might have read some about our project in Saint-Raphael where we leased land, intending to buy it in two years, provided that  the plan works. We looked at all angles, we thought, and planned and planted our first rice crop. Just a few weeks ago we went to see the progress and bright green rice plants were almost burning our eyes out. Have you ever seen rice grow? It is beautiful.
During the last two weeks the seedlings were planted out on the big field. The night before we went to check on the crop we had a big rain at the orphanage. Wonderful! But come to think of it when we drove to the fields, about an hour or so away, the muddy roads got drier and drier. Saint Raphael did not share in the rains nor has there been any since. This is the rainy season. Today I talked to Pauluis who brought the bad news that our first planting is doomed to fail. All the farmers around us, and there are many, have the same problems. Does it ever end? Now what Lord?
We can plan all we want but we still depend on God's blessings and rain is sure one of them. Please pray with me for rain, Haiti needs it so badly!