Just got this in the anonymous prayer requests mailbox:
HM the Queen's husband, Phil the Greek, has been involved in a traffic accident. He was driving, and pulled out from a driveway on to the public highway. He is 97 years old. He was uninjured - though the little, unimportant people in the other car were taken to hospital.
The Archbish of York (second only to the Archbish of Canterbury in the hierarchy of the Church of England, or third if you include the Queen) has tweeted on this important matter:
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Archbish of York
Almighty God, the Fountain of all Goodness,We humbly beseech thee to bless Philip Duke of Edinburgh:Endue him with thy Holy Spirit; enrich him with thy Heavenly Grace; prosper him with all happiness; and bring him to thine everlasting kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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The responses are perhaps not what he hoped for. Am not sure what to pray for: does Archbish Sentamu want Phil dead?
I would consider this a reminder of why you should be careful what you pray for. Prayer actually works, it's not like "
wishful thinking" aka "
the law of attraction", which
we have been playing with. We only killed Patrick Swayze and got the Pope fired, probably because someone misunderstood the joke, and prayed when they were supposed to be "
visualizing".
I'm going to add that I can't make any sense of the British class system - they should just rank people by how much money they have, like everyone else does.
Also, while normally I would not pray for someone to recover from what was either incompetent driving or God's punishment, I'll make an exception. The British drive on the wrong side of the road, which is confusing for people all ages.