I still haven’t figured out how to pray (within my new paradigm, as it were), so it’s quite confusing when I feel the urge to pray and I don’t know if I should channel that urge in the conventional way.

Like, when it comes to Death Cab for Cutie.

Tickets went on sale today for the Death Cab for Cutie/Franz Ferdinand show that will be happening in town at the end of April. Last night I was getting ready for bed and thinking about how I’d messed up and didn’t manage to get tickets for either of the presales that happened this week.

And all of a sudden, my brain starts to go, “Please, please God let me get tickets for this show!”

I do a mental snap-take and put a halt to that kind of prayer immediately. These days I’m having trouble believing God is in the business of healing physical ailments, let alone arranging that I get concert tickets.

So instead I prayed something I’m more comfortable praying to God, that is, “Please help me to realize that concert tickets, even for bands which have never played my city up until this point and are pretty rad, are just not that freakin’ important and help me to focus on the things that are.”

I’m having some pretty significant health problems these days, and I don’t really know how to pray about it. I guess it’s safe to pray, “Help me to deal with this illness.” I don’t know if I’m ready to ask for some more radical divine intervention. I guess given all the people around the world who die every day of illnesses that are treatable and/or preventable, I do wonder if God is in the business of direct action in people’s lives, in that way. I don’t know.

In the end, I got my Death Cab tickets. And, it turns out, the answer to my prayer.

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