There was an article about this wall street pentecostal preacher guy and his wife in the New York Times Sunday Magazine this week - complete with scary pictures of these people. The wife used to "pray to God to send her a husband." And HE sent her one! Good-oh! One up for GOD.
Then the beloved C came home and told me that her boss had told her that the beloved C was the answer to her prayers and that the boss knew that God had sent her (beloved C) to UCLA so that she (the boss) could give her (C) another department currently being run by a nimrod.
So here are two examples of GOD actively intervening in the lives of prayerful christians. And here's my question for GOD. Why is GOD interested in someones marital status? Or UCLA's alumni fundraising? Is GOD a BRUIN? With so much going on in the world, why is GOD listening to someones pray for a good data processing manager? Hello, GOD, I don't care about Margaret's period, I care about the fact that people, actual people are being raped and killed in Darfour. Triage? Priorities? Get GOD a damn PDA and a prioritized to do list before it's too late!
And here's my question for those who pray. What's Christian about praying to GOD to fix your SEX LIFE? Or to solve a little work issue? What kind of solipsistic, dumb-ass, personal, itty bitty kind of thing to pray for. Pray to stop civil war in Iraq.
Then the beloved C came home and told me that her boss had told her that the beloved C was the answer to her prayers and that the boss knew that God had sent her (beloved C) to UCLA so that she (the boss) could give her (C) another department currently being run by a nimrod.
So here are two examples of GOD actively intervening in the lives of prayerful christians. And here's my question for GOD. Why is GOD interested in someones marital status? Or UCLA's alumni fundraising? Is GOD a BRUIN? With so much going on in the world, why is GOD listening to someones pray for a good data processing manager? Hello, GOD, I don't care about Margaret's period, I care about the fact that people, actual people are being raped and killed in Darfour. Triage? Priorities? Get GOD a damn PDA and a prioritized to do list before it's too late!
And here's my question for those who pray. What's Christian about praying to GOD to fix your SEX LIFE? Or to solve a little work issue? What kind of solipsistic, dumb-ass, personal, itty bitty kind of thing to pray for. Pray to stop civil war in Iraq.
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Scott I hadn't read your blog for so long and without prayer I find it is still here! I sent a link to it to my pal Cid Wolstein who lives in Big Fork (sounds like a Buffet) Montana and paints houses and wears oversized wing tips (!) when she plays one of her one hundred guitars at gigs all over under the Big Sky and sings lyrics that you'd think would get her killed there. MAN
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