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Prayer: A petition that the laws of nature be suspended in favor of the petitioner; himself confessedly unworthy.
A person using prayer time to ask for the world to be set to rights, or to beseech god to bestow a favor upon himself, would in effect be guilty of a profound blasphemy or at the very least a pathetic misunderstanding.
It is not for the mere human to be presuming that he or she can advise the divine. And this, sad to say, opens religion to the additional charge of corruption.
It’s no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don’t have a body, I am a body.
“Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”
With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great-grandparents, great-aunts … and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own … Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
