"Father, we must do something, or we will lose our crop!"

It was a dry summer, and the inhabitants of a small village were worried about what would happen to their harvest. On one Sunday, they turned to their priest for advice.

"Father, we must do something, or we will lose our crop!"

"All that is required of you is to pray with absolute faith. Prayer without faith is not prayer. It must come from the heart, "answered the priest.

The next week the residents gathered twice a day and prayed that God would send them rain. On Sunday they came to the priest.

"Nothing happens, Father! We get together every day and pray, but there is no rain.

"Do you really pray with faith?" Asked the priest.

They began to assure him that it was so. But the priest retorted:

"I know that you pray without faith, because none of you, having gone here, has taken an umbrella with you!"