{"id":269,"date":"2008-10-03T10:09:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T10:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2008\/10\/divine-providence-text-messages-sarah-palin-did-not-send.html"},"modified":"2008-10-03T10:09:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T10:09:14","slug":"divine-providence-text-messages-sarah-palin-did-not-send","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2008\/10\/divine-providence-text-messages-sarah-palin-did-not-send.html","title":{"rendered":"Divine Providence: text messages Sarah Palin did not send"},"content":{"rendered":"

Providence can be defined as understanding, intent, and action. Maybe omniscience and foresight. I’m no Calvinist so I can’t really say for sure, but Divine Providence<\/a>, apparently, can also smile and dance. I found this out this morning at five a.m., when the following text message appeared in my phone: “This is a stranger. And this is a stranger texting you at five AM. And this is a stranger expressing love for you. Expressing love knowing that, whatever you do, divine providence dances with you in It’s dreams, and smiles at you — always.”
\n\"Progress,
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\nAt first I thought it was from Sarah Palin, because Barack Obama texts me all the time<\/a>, and some warmed over crap about divine providence sounds exactly like something she would say. She attends a Pentecostal church<\/a>, after all — or she used to<\/a> — and divine revelation is a pretty big thing with them.
\nBut, then again, I’m pretty sure she doesn’t love me<\/a>. I must have been having nightmares about her when the text woke me up. After watching her hideous down-home winking idiot<\/a> performance during the debate last night, I went to sleep feeling like I was going to barf. So maybe that explains the association.
\nIt still doesn’t explain who sent the message, though…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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