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Low life

Jesus sometimes plays a very long game

We don’t know if our prayers are answered but we say them anyway

17 October 2015

8:00 AM

17 October 2015

8:00 AM

We closed the last page of a gruesome, thrilling picture book called The Day Louis Got Eaten and said our prayers. Our prayers are always the same. We ask Jesus to bless as many people known to us as we can remember, taking it in turns to name them. We aren’t sure what the range of consequences might be for someone if we ask Jesus to bless them, but we do it anyway, and the word has a pleasant, incantatory feel to it when repeated.

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