I share another outdoor sculpture today. It is Water Carriers created as a tribute to the farmers who eked crops out of the high plains desert of eastern Colorado. It shows a hardworking pioneer couple hauling and praying water into their livelihood. We are invited into their desperate effort in fluid and realistic detail. Herb Mignery casts his bronze pieces in Loveland, Colorado.

Mignery was raised on a ranch in Nebraska. He followed his interest in art to bronze sculpture and did his first casting in 1973. His work is a view back which he believes is necessary for any steps forward.

This twelve-foot, 3,000 pound sculpture is part of the Visitor Center in Loveland where it seems to whisper and to shout the eternal importance of water to this area. It speaks of drought both present and future and prompts us to realize what a changing climate may mean for the desert we live on even after all our years of trying to deny and to override the fact that we do.

God, we pray for your creation and for our impact on it. May our eyes be opened and sacrifices gracefully made as nature speaks its truth.

In gratitude, faith and hope,

Sandy Prouty
Minister of Children and Families
Montview Church