So you are going to have to feel guilty no matter how you get better.
Well, if I believed I would feel a twinge, but I can't so I won't.
Maybe you could try praying for the billions of sufferers in the world yourself.
That's the crux of the issue right there. I shouldn't have to pray to get god's attention. If an entity has the power to create a planet, let alone a Universe, it should have avoided the situations that caused the kind of undeserved suffering I see around our planet.
I suspect that if god set up prayer as the preferred method of communication, the minimum requirement for success would be that the person praying is a believer. I will never be able to pretend I believe.
I don't like gated communities so I would not adjust well in heaven, which is where this would lead if it was real.
BY THE WAY I'm thinking of RAZD in all this too, since he's been going through a lot lately.
I'm thinking about him also. I have fond feeling for acquaintances and friends and I probably think about them more often if they have troubles in their lives. I have close friends who say they feel the same way about me, so it gives me a warm feeling whenever I think about them. My closest friends and I even have a special word for that feeling that we made up years ago and that only we know.
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