Connecticut Governor Dannel Molloy this morning advised his state\u2019s residents to prepare for Hurricane Sandy and then go \u201cpray.\u201d\u00a0 What exactly would those prayers look like?\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDear God: Even though you\u2019ve sent this hurricane (because nothing happens on earth that is contrary to the Will of the Omnipotent One), do you think you could maybe mitigate its effects just a little bit?\u00a0 (Such a last minute modification in the predestined unfurling of your simultaneous, omnipresent Will would be theologically problematic, but at this point, who\u2019s counting?)\u00a0 Just to remind you, human beings don\u2019t like getting mowed down with natural disasters.\u00a0 Of course, you were content to allow thousands to be wiped out in the big publicity items\u2014the Japanese and Indonesian tsunamis, say\u2014as well as in the unnoticed fires, tree branch fallings, electrocutions, slip and falls, and incurable diseases that take human beings down every day.\u00a0 But those victims maybe weren\u2019t as deserving as us, who knows, it\u2019s a real puzzle, or maybe they didn\u2019t get a chance to pray before they were killed.\u00a0 We, however, are still very much alive, and here we are with a VERY big prayer and a VERY big claim on your attention, cuz\u2019 we know WE\u2019RE deserving as all get out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We also can\u2019t help observing that it would have been a whole lot easier had you simply averted Hurricane Sandy in the first place, rather than allowing it to proceed, and THEN fiddling with its course\u2014would\u2019ve saved us a whole lot of trouble preparing and would not have disrupted commerce and millions of lives.\u00a0 But maybe you were distracted with other things, and forgot how inconvenient a hurricane can be.\u00a0 So we won\u2019t hold it against you, but now that we\u2019ve brought this problem to your attention, do you think that you could maybe call back the winds?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rest assured, however, that if you decide not to call the whole thing off and lives are lost, we will still troop to church and thank you for your Divine Mercy\u00a0 and will pray for you to take care of the still living victims, even though dozens or hundreds of other human beings didn\u2019t get your Mercy BEFORE they lost their lives.\u00a0 (Though we\u2019re sure that now that they\u2019re dead, you are laying a whole lot of Mercy on them, and we thank you for that.)<\/p>\n
In the meantime, however, thousands of selfless emergency workers are preparing to help their fellow humans survive this hurricane, putting their own well-being at risk.\u00a0 And we are grateful for the millions of engineering geniuses whose labors on behalf of humanity mean that we will weather your storm a million times better than those less fortunate people who lived hundreds of years earlier.\u00a0 But of course, in working to better their fellow humans, these emergency workers, scientists, entrepreneurs, tinkerers, and builders are merely reflecting YOUR Divine Love, and it is to you, ultimately, that we owe our greatest thanks.<\/p>\n
P.S. Could you please make sure that [Obama] [Romney] wins the election?\u201d<\/p>\n
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Connecticut Governor Dannel Molloy this morning advised his state\u2019s residents to prepare for Hurricane Sandy and then go \u201cpray.\u201d\u00a0 What exactly would those prayers look like?\u00a0 \u201cDear God: Even though you\u2019ve sent this hurricane (because nothing happens on earth that … Continue reading