Are you a generalist and say, “([Favourite] Deity), provide loving support for the person(s) toward whom I direct your blessings right now.”?

A friend of mine told me that miracles occur because a group of his church friends got together and prayed heavily for a person serving in a war zone.  The person survived an IED “attack,” which destroyed the vehicle and killed at least one other in the convoy, proving that prayers work because the person being prayed for was unscathed.

I don’t have evidence that others in the convoy received more or less praying for their safety and well-being but, even if I did have the evidence, I will let my friend keep his belief that prayer works.

Do your friends and family who do not own businesses understand the ramifications of their rumours and innuendos about people and/or their businesses?

How do I pray/meditate?

I look at the Great Unknown – God, Lord, He/She/It, Them – as a source of infinite wisdom that I can tap within my thoughts or from talking with friends/family about problems I want to resolve.

Dogma or ritual/ceremony that serve vain purposes cloud my solution-seeking.

In other words, everything is up for grabs.

If I cannot stop the adults around me from spreading rumours or complaining without caring about finding a viable solution, then I can at least prevent their attitudes and habits from affecting young people, hoping they won’t adopt the same unhelpful attitudes and habits, while, at the same time, I work with programmers to turn rumours and complaints into a source of data from which trends can be extracted and solutions provided.

It is, you see, a life of constant prayer/meditation for me.

Frequently, I find myself chasing my tail but if I’m happy in the moment, let it be so.

Life is not fair – how much do politicians owe their electorate to spread the wealth of those who have successfully built fortunes on predatory business practices?

Is it my responsibility to protect the rights of the easily manipulated, impulsive buyer?

In constant prayer/meditation, I ask myself, “If I don’t protect the species from itself, who will?”

How do I give strength to wanting to live without inflating the artificial sense of self?

What are the eternal/ perpetual/ unanswerable/ philosophical questions that need no further consideration?