This isn’t really the day of anonymous friends saying things. With this one I am just helping someone save face.
\nI get an instant message, “a prayer request”
\nNext line: “trading deadline is today, you know the sox are close to getting jermaine dye
\nand, you know, pray for poor people and the sick, too”
\nTranslation: the Red Sox are about to get a really great player but my friend – as a Sox fan – still lives in total fear that everything will go horribly wrong and somehow the Yankees will get everyone…at the same time… a not irrational fear.
\nMy friend and I have long gone back and forth on prayer – is it right, for instance, to pray for parking. My friend says no – it is arrogant. I say yes – if God cares about sparrows he can care about parking… or the Red Sox. So I’ve said a quick prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This isn’t really the day of anonymous friends saying things. With this one I am just helping someone save face. I get an instant message, “a prayer request” Next line: “trading deadline is today, you know the sox are close to getting jermaine dye and, you know, pray for poor people and the sick, too”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jesus","category-popular-culture"],"yoast_head":"\n