This morning, NPR featured a story about a big time republican fundraiser who had bundled for Bush and, this cycle, had signed on to raise funds for Tim Pawlenty. He was stricken when the Gov. pulled out of the race and, then, when the first call he received was from Mitt Romney, he "prayed on it" before signing on to the former Mass. governor's campaign.
It wasn't until I moved to Winston-Salem that I realized that many people (indeed, perhaps an overwhelming majority of people) in this part of the world seek Divine guidance before making any sort of important decision. (I also began to note that people here pray "on" something when I always had thought praying was "about" something; ditto having a picture "made" as opposed to "taken." Perhaps, if explorers had used the "made" formative instead of the "taken," the subjects of their picture taking/making might have been less afraid that the box was altering their essence by taking something away.)
This nearly ubiquitous praying on decisions before they are made got me thinking. Is it the fact that there is a Holy Trinity in Christianity that allows such involvement in all aspects of life? Surely the job of informing everyone about every important decision, while still controlling those things which happen regardless of human thinking (like weather) would be too much for a single guiding entity. Or, maybe not.
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