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A Prayer for the Unsympathetic Lord, I trouble You today with a prayer for those, who having been raised in a hardscrabble life, overcome the limitations of the poverty and the violence of their origins to become modestly successful professionals, in as much as they are able to provide for their families food, every night, on the table, a warm bed under a dry roof. I pray for them because, all too often, they found little help in their struggles and have therefore emerged with a distorted sense of the importance of self-reliance, which colors their perception, numbing them to the suffering of others, who were blessed with neither the abilities nor the determination to surmount formidable odds. I pray for them because not only do they lack sympathy for others, but they themselves are unsympathetic, often proudly so. No one else will pray for them and they would have it no other way. Lord, I pray for those who escaped and didn't look back for fear of losing their will upon seeing whom they left behind. |
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A Prayer for the Unsympathetic David Keffer Knoxville, TN November 25, 2014 |