I came across a news article today about a guy who found a bag full of letters that were addressed to God. The letters were sent to a Reverend at a church with the intent that they would be prayed over. Some were on the humorous side and others on the serious side. It was almost as if the author was putting down the Reverend for not reading the letters. As a result of not reading the letters, the author implied that they were not prayed over. Here is my question, did the Reverend really have to open and read the letters in order to pray over them? Could he have held each letter and prayed for whatever was in it and still kept the confidentiality of each letter? God would know what was in the letter even though the Reverend didn't open it, right? What made me the most angry was the last line of the article that announced the individual was going to place these letters for sale on EBay. Seriously, doesn't he have access to a paper shredder? Can't he just take the letters and destroy them? Why would anyone be so hungry for money? Check out the article for yourself, what do you think?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061102/ap_on_re_us/unanswered_prayers
3 comments:
Hi Deborah,
Interesting story. No, I do not think the letters had to be opened to be prayed over. You are right in that God would know what they said. And shame on the guy for trying to make a buck off of them.
By the way, nice blog. I found it by chance hitting the random button. hope you don't mind if I check back from time to time.
Deej
Yikes,
Not sure if I am a big fan of this guy...
I think I will pray for him, oh wait, I can't since I am not touching him, and have never met him...too bad for him.
-Nick
I think the major question here is "Who writes letters to God?" And furthermore, "why is the preist to blame? For what? Not reading God's mail?" That's like raking the mailman over the coils for not answering the letters to Santa.
If someone writes a letter to God, it's like a prayer, I'm sure God is a big boy and knows what they wrote.
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