…if, given all the trouble in this world and all the people that are in genuine trouble, it’s even appropriate to wonder, much less ask this.<\/p>\n
But those of us who believe are urged to “bring everything to God in prayer” – so this probably qualifies (and for those who don’t – well, what can it hurt you, right?).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Soooooo…<\/p>\n
\u00a0…if anyone could spare a prayer, karmic imprecation or best wish that my attempt at a mortgage refinance to get out of my really miserable ARM might go through, in and among all the\u00a0serious <\/em>prayers for people who really, really do<\/em> need divine assistance, an infusion of chi<\/em>, or whatever it is you believe in (or don’t), I’d much appreciate it.<\/p>\n (That, and\/or if you’re a mortgage lender who appreciates a bit <\/em>of a challenge, drop me a line.\u00a0 I’d love to do business with ya).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …if, given all the trouble in this world and all the people that are in genuine trouble, it’s even appropriate to wonder, much less ask this. But those of us who believe are urged to “bring everything to God in prayer” – so this probably qualifies (and for those who don’t – well, what can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}