Observations

I’ve made an observation in collecting prayers. For the last three or four weeks, I’ve been working building signs and working on the tornado damage in Macon, and looking for prayers for the book. I’ve met many church-going people. I’ve offered to come to their churches with my book so they could see what I’m doing, pass the word around, and maybe put some prayers in the book. I’ve lost count of how many church-going people I’ve talked to. I’ve gotten in the last three weeks probably three prayers in the book. When I was doing nothing but collecting prayers and putting a lot of effort into talking to people about this, I got more prayers. The reason that I see for this is, for instance: I’ll be standing somewhere—like at a store or a gas station or a park—and someone will indicate to me through their behavior (or at least this is what I believe) that I might approach them and show them the flyer. I try to be polite. I try not to preach. And I watch the person’s reaction to what I say to see how far I should go in asking for a prayer. If they feel uncomfortable, I stop. So far—to my shock and disappointment—my observation is that half the people I’ve spoken to far across the state of Georgia and through Emails nationally and internationally respond back showing no real care or concern. This doesn’t surprise me because I can’t always find the perfect opportunity to present something like asking for a prayer.

I hope to God my prayers will always be free and not so precious that I can’t give them without suspicion, which is what I’ve come to grow used to in the last few weeks. I believe that these circumstances I find myself in—people, mostly good decent Christians superstitious of giving prayers to be typical of a society that nowadays gets most of its products from people who cannot afford to buy the products they’re making, who live in poverty while they make goods for the major companies of America, which always leads to what’s happening in Juarez, not to mention a loss of jobs in America. So, in summation, I will be watching this blog and my Email, and I’ll continue on my journey but I have changed the agenda. I will fill this book with prayers; and, because I am not asking for money and paying for this myself, I will continue to work in the sign business for 40 hours a week so that I can pay child support and bills. But in the time I am not working, my real mission—what I’ll be working for—will be to fill this prayer book, finish this flag, and deliver them to someone like Amnesty International so that they can deal with it, finding a home where it was intended to be with the people whom the prayers were written for. Now I will tell you my boss’s name and some other things. I am collecting these prayers for the Great Spirit of all things; you know him by many names. And I am collecting these prayers for Mother Mary. I feel very honored and very privileged to give my life to collecting these prayers and to help bring an awareness of what true slavery is.

In conclusion, thank you for all your prayers to those who have written or sent them—all seven or eight of them that were sent over the Internet. I have over a hundred or so prayers in my book. And I would also like to apologize to everybody for my not being better at getting prayers. I will work on that. This is probably due to the lifestyle that I’ve lived and my lack of training in this field of work. It’s my lifetime goal to perfect this work. The book and flag will be delivered when they’re finished. I am leaving on the 23rd of June from Macon headed out to Texas. If the book isn’t filled by the time I reach Juarez, I will continue until it is.