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Pray for Him
Does beseeching a higher power change anything?
Looking somber in a well-fitted powder blue suit, and sounding a lot like my mother, House Speaker, Nanci Pelosi, in a press conference recently, implored the collective “we” to be prayerful, saying she prayed for the president, and that she’d even told him as much on a call regarding gun violence prevention, a few weeks prior. She told him she prayed that “God will give you illumination, an enlightenment to pray to work for the safety of other families in our country.”
Later on Twitter, I saw her call to prayer met with mixed responses. Some saw it as weakness. Others said that the thoughts and consciousness of many could bring clarity and evenness to the difficulty before us.
The house speaker has demonstrated she is nothing if not tough. But what if her call to prayer is an admission that no one functions entirely on their own power? That it’s an appeal for the spiritual energy of the many to face or change what is past what can be accomplished alone? And that at the point when all earthly resources have been employed, it’s our human nature to want more. In other words, prayer is a reflexive, humble call for back-up.
In our culture, strength seems to be measured by the muster of the individual. However, most of us have experienced events and situations beyond our efforts and answers, moments…
