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Update from Miami Herald: GOP delays convention business due to Isaac
Be careful what you pray for. Remember back in August, 2008 when Focus on the Family’s Stuart Shepard asked people to pray that Barack Obama’s Democratic nominee acceptance speech would get swamped by torrential rain?
Would it be wrong to ask people to pray? Would it be wrong if we asked people to pray for rain?O.K., not just rain, abundant rain. Torrential rain. Urban and small stream flood advisory rain.
Would it be wrong if we prayed for rain on, say, a particular night at, say, a particular location? Ah, say the evening of August 28th, right here at Mile High Stadium here in Denver. During the prime time t.v. hour when a certain presumptive nominee is set to give a certain acceptance speech at a certain Democratic National Convention?
I’m talkin’ umbrella ain’t gonna help ya rain. Not flood people out of their houses rain, just good old swamp the intersections rain.
We’re not asking for hail the size of canned hams, or lightening bolts to set the bunting on fire. Just rain. Beautiful rain. Network cameras can’t see the podium rain. Attendees can’t walk to the indoor arena without wishing for hip waders rain.
I know you might ask why would I pray for that. Well, I’m still pro-life and I’m still in favor of marriage being only between one man and one woman. And I’d like the next president, who’ll select justices for the U. S. Supreme Court to agree.
So I’m praying for unexpected, unanticipated, unforecasted rain that starts two minutes before the speech is set to begin.
Would it be wrong to pray for rain?
With tropical storm Isaac headed for Florida where the Republican National Convention will begin on Monday, I’d say God is giving Stuart Shepard and his mean spirited compatriots a refresher course in Matthew 7:12, the Golden Rule: “Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.”
I’d like to think they’ll take the hint, but judging by the Republican Party’s anti-woman, anti-LGBT 2012 platform, it doesn’t look likely.
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You beat me to it. I was thinking this afternoon that God is getting even with Pat Robertson for blaming him/her for all the disasters in the world.
I’m a veteran of four hurricanes. From the graphic, Tampa will be in the right front quadrant of Isaac – that’s the worst part of the storm, with tornadoes not at all unusual, even hundreds of miles from the storm’s center.
I’m not going to hope for a Cat 5 storm, because I have some attachment to the Tampa area, but just enough to get the delegates soaking wet and messed up washed out hair, with possible running makeup. LOL! It’ll look like a gathering of refugees with grooming issues.
People should remember also that Goddess’ response to the 2010 election of the Teatotalitarians and their trashing of their alleged belief in Christianity by sending tornadoes to the states most infested by fundamentalists, sometimes even sending tornadoes a couple of times to the same places.
Also, you may recall that Rick Perry decided that tax breaks for yacht owners were more important than supporting rural fire departments. Last year there was a major increase in the number and severity of wild fires in West Texas. Perry’s response was a call for prayer for rain. Goddess’ response was indeed to send rain — to EAST Texas, in flooding amounts.
Well, I was going to suggest praying for a rain of frogs (a la Exodus), but then I looked at the speaker lineup & realized it would be redundant!
To those steeped in Biblical matters, the name of the storm, Isaac, has special significance. God spoke directly to Abraham, as he has done recently to Reps. Backman and Akin, and told him to sacrifice Isaac. Then SHE CHANGED HER MIND!!!
As God [allegedly] said to Moses: “All prayers shall be answered ………… but NO is also an answer.”