Word: prayerfulness
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...refused to embalm the remains of patients. In Los Angeles, a funeral parlor was asked to handle the body of three-year-old Sammy Kushnick, who had died from AIDS contracted through a blood transfusion. Until a rabbi intervened, they refused to dress the boy in the clothes and prayer shawl his parents had selected for his burial...
...Alban's Church, the seat of the Anglican diocese of Johannesburg, it was time for the morning prayer meeting. In the boardroom, the staff had assembled, about 20 men and women, black and white. At precisely 9 a.m. Bishop Desmond Tutu arrived. "Good morning, Baba (Father), " said members of the group. "A little more enthusiasm, please, " the bishop replied with a smile, and the group obliged. Then he pulled up a chair and began the day's lesson. It was drawn from Acts 21: 27-39, the story of Paul being taken into protective custody by Roman soldiers to shelter...
Movies and television were not part of the family's lives, although radio was allowed. But Gary says that no, he never heard the great Sunday-evening radio comedies: "We were at prayer meeting." He has rebelled against the narrow sectarianism of his upbringing, but although he has no church affiliation, religion is serious and real to him. As his friend Roy Blount says, "He's been off to college, gotten divorced, learned to drink. But he hasn't severed his roots." Keillor likes the old hymns, he says, because "they express faith, which I lean towards as the basis...
...wait till after the game. Win, lose or draw, they'll hold hands with the coach and say a prayer. They always do, and we don't leave till the prayer is over...
...appeared, 17-year-old Texans big around as the bole of a sequoia born when the local mail came by Pony Express. The Midland band played Dixie. Young drill teams strutted: the dancers had the tendony legs of Appaloosas--and orthodontia that cost the earth. A student gave the prayer over the loudspeaker: "Thanks for getting us here O.K., Lord, and I just pray you let the boys play without any harm to anyone, and I just pray everyone plays to the best of their abilities with the talents you've given them, and I just pray you give everyone...