1. Prayer for me has always been difficult.  Because I’m not good at fudging over things or ignoring the very real bad stuff that goes on in the world.  Sometimes it seems like prayer makes no impact whatsoever. But I’ve decided that there’s no choice but to pray. 

2. Pray for Philadelphia. We’re having one of the worst years for homicide in a decade. Up to this point this year, we’ve had 139 homicides – one a day.  Yesterday, a mother of two was shot in the head after walking downtow to work.

3. And I thought about those nights at the fair when we were all together. And I thought about years, how they take so long, and they go so fast.