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Ritual

March 27, 2018 6 Comments

Ritual

By J. P. Roquard

“You pray five times a day?”

“Yes.”

“Every day?”

“Yes.”

“How do you find the time?”

“I just do.”

“But, like, how can you just drop everything and go pray? I can barely find the time to read my emails.”

“I just find the time.”

“How?”

“So… did you check Facebook today?”

“Yes.”

“And you check it every day?”

“Yes.”

“And Insta?”

“Yeah.”

“And Snapchat? And LinkedIn? And Twitter? Maybe Tumblr too?”

“Not LinkedIn.”

“If you have time to check these every day, you have time to pray.”

“Huh, I guess so… Hey, can you follow me on Twitter?”

“Of course.”

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  1. Jo Ann patterson says

    March 27, 2018 at 7:36 am

    Good logic..can always find time to do what is important to us and still have time for other things.

    Reply
    • J P Roquard says

      April 3, 2018 at 2:35 am

      Thanks for reading Jo. I think you summarised it better than I could have!

      Reply
  2. rauthor68 says

    March 27, 2018 at 3:19 pm

    This fails to satisfy the first questions with an answer, but in misguided logic, he follows the guy on Twitter.

    Reply
  3. Renato González says

    March 29, 2018 at 10:05 am

    It’s real.
    We have time for a lot of activites whitouth importance but not for real important things.

    Reply
    • J P Roquard says

      April 3, 2018 at 2:37 am

      Thanks for reading Renato

      Reply
  4. perry mcdaid says

    April 10, 2018 at 9:15 am

    Sorry – no story, just a bit of didacticism

    Reply

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