Word: prayerful
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...take it over. And, Franklin, I agree with them, and if I present this to the board I want to know what you're going to say." Franklin did not hesitate. "I said, 'Daddy, if this is what you feel in your heart, I would accept that.' We had prayer, and we discussed some general things...
...coming across Mama's corpse from Psycho in a museum. The old woman is waiting for death; her head is a sheep's skull in a jar on whose front is pasted a photo of herself when young; she wears a necklace of memories: jars containing gilded mementos of prayer, marriage, long-gone sexual love. The repeated forms of oval frames, a sewing box and tabletops combine with the big curve of the screen behind the chair to give the piece a strong binding rhythm at odds with the poor shriveled figure. All is dust and mummification except...
...fools for Christ's sake...We must pray for the courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world." --Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at a Baptist prayer breakfast in Mississippi...
...number of times. I was no more successful than before, so I went to sleep, sure that after both the computer and I had a rest everything would be fine. However, the next morning, the screen was still blank. For the next day or so, I held extensive prayer rituals over the machine, and otherwise avoided my common room as much possible, not wanting to be in the same room with the dead animal...
...elated. As always, you, our valued catalog customers, were never far from our thoughts--especially the evening we lingered over jasmine tea with a Mahayana Buddhist monk at the Four Winds Monastery, perched precariously above a roaring tributary of the Ganges. As we sipped to the rhythmic whirl of prayer wheels, I in my all-cotton, breathable Sahib Gear[TM] Punting Pants, Jan in her wind-resistant Amelia Earhart Aviator's Bra, we couldn't help noticing the elegant saffron robe that enveloped our host. The rustic fabric, simple and unfussy, draped beautifully--perfect, as Jan remarked to his holiness...