THE SPORT OF VIRTUE POETIC PRAYER EXPLANATION My idea is to sort of use the telekinetic action of the minds of people such as Usenet newsgroup readers, to help uplift spirits of all people everywhere (except the ones who should not be uplifted). This is rational I'll explain to you an original insight I figured out. Just as you could not hear the drumbeats produced by the mind of the drummer if God blocked the sound waves, so also another type of action of God, interference as opposed to non-interference, allows the benevolent thoughts in the mind of a praying person to have effect on others. (this does not mean God approves of everything he allows to happen). So if you do something such as read the poetic prayer I wrote you can find below, you might really be able to accomplish something. By now anti-religious noises produced with regularity by the argumentative might be beginning to echo through your head. The best way I know to quiet such echoes is to point out that the scriptures have more than once declared, that most of God's thoughts words and deeds are not recorded in scripture. THE SPORT OF VIRTUE POETIC PRAYER That God would grant unto all people everywhere excepting those too evil to be so blessed that there be an increase in virtue is today's prayer Hear us Lord Father heed these our prayer requests For these virtues are like skills of athletic conquest that make us more proficient in the spiritual contest more able to be by your Spirit more posessed more able to defeat enemy forces unblessed Which are the forces that reduce the number of minutes in our lives that we spend intoxicated by God's Spirit the forces that lower the level of intoxication we are able to achieve even in our exaltation But all the while help us to charitably understand that though kind deeds can help someone feel blessed such acts of kindness done according to your commands may not have made that someone into a better man but rather may have helped him to feel sorrow less help us all, God to be more content with the basics of life more steadfast and unmoveable in heavenly strife more able to acquit ourselves like men and be strong not terrified, shaken or troubled when things go wrong Give us more endurance of hardness as good soldiers of the Lord help us to be less disrupted in our spiritual lives by worldly sorrows and joys by good or bad wives less hurt by persecution distress and famine and sword And let not our concern for those we are married to divert us from good paths right for us set by you Help us God to be more spiritually minded and fit, to follow more closely the leadership of your Spirit Let there be less quenching of Spirit amongst wits God make us more holy, more filled with the spirit more filled with the godly grace your power transmits Let there be amongst us and everywhere here and abroad more praise fear and service to the God we should adore more rejoicing in God more thankfulness to the Lord Help us and all in climates both warm and colder to become more careful circumspect and sober Help us abstain from all appearance of evil make our bodies more holy more conformed to thy will more worthy of being with your Spirit instilled Help us God to become more hardworking and diligent and to lessen our part in noisiness and entanglements that contradict God's will and the teachings of the prophets Help us to be less improperly judgemental of sins and to become more approving of all excellent things Help us to increase in kindness, blessing and forgiveness with regards to enemies and persecutors among us Give us more kindness longsuffering and forbearance more gentleness, tenderheartedness and patience Help us to be more peaceful empathetic and sympathetic and grant that within us there may exist non-synthetic more love of other persons and of all humans more brotherly love and more love of good persons more love between wives of the world and their husbands Let there be more prayer offered for all persons and more adherence to the dictates of conscience more good manners and good behaviour in everyone Help us to increase amongst us and all persons virtues of blamelesness, worthiness, and harmlesness and cheerful mercifulness and hospitality, and help decrease conduct that harms others spiritually Grant us God that people be more properly subject to the government powers truly ordained by you and that diligence and goodness of governments improve Let there be more quantity and quality found in all nations in terms of wise and knowledgeable exhortation More good ministering and teaching and education more prophesying of God's truths for edification more helpful healing and godly comforting of persons more distribution of necessities to all, especially to good persons who've answered your call more relief of the afflicted, as said Saint Paul more of goodness, and of righteousness and good works more of the doing of the will of the Lord on earth Let there be everywhere more heavenly signs more miracles wonders and mighty deeds divine more admonishment and abhorrence of evil more reproval of dark works done against God's will more anger against the enemy the devil God our father insofar as your will permits help us so children show more godly obedience and honor to parents God grant that parents not be abusive to their children that a better job of running the families be done and that parents improve as providers for their little ones Grant among us and everywhere, O God of good deeds that we may all increase in the virtues described so that we may become better spiritual athletes, and achieve greater success in obtaining the prize, Your great Holy Spirit that we want in our lives I ask all this of thee God in the name of Yayzoos your son now known amongst mankind as Jesus Christ of the christians