Ecosophia Prayer List, Week of May 29th

(NOTE: This is an old version of the list. All new prayer requests should be left at the most recent Prayer List post, which can be found here)

To everyone who participates in these weekly prayer lists-- both those who pray, and those who request and accept prayer-- my heartfelt thanks for joining in. 

There's now a new optional feature to the weekly prayer list.

After some discussion on the matter, a sizable majority of the prayer list participants who made their voices heard agreed: we are of the opinion that when neither privacy nor modesty is a concern, it is generally more efficacious for the requesters of prayer to provide their real names, location, and even pictures of themselves. This both makes it easier for those praying to focus their intentions, and it requires the prayer requester to put some "skin in the game", opening the gates to more easily let in the powers who answer prayer.

Of course, modesty and especially privacy are a real concern. Also, everyone agrees that praying on behalf of pseudonyms, or even simply to "anonymous", can be efficacious: as was brought up in the comments of that conversation, two of the most dramatic successes of the prayer list so far were on behalf of pseudonymous handles. 

With all of this in mind, here is what we will try.

(1) For prayer requesters who don't wish to do anything differently, nothing will change. Please continue to only share what information you are comfortable sharing of your personal information with the main prayer list, just as you have already been doing, and rest assured that your prayers will be heard.

(2) *After* you have shared your prayer already on the main prayer list, those who wish to do more to increase the efficacy of their prayers also have the option of sharing information they wish to remain discreet by e-mail. This information will be shared semi-privately only on a weekly mailing list version of the prayer list. It will never appear on the main prayer list page, and nobody will be able to search for your information on the web. If you wish to take this option for your prayer request, the e-mail address to send this information to is: "ecosophia prayer list" with no spaces at the care of the leading email domain of the company whose name is honomynous with the mathematical term for "ten to the power of one hundred".

In the message, you might include:

--the prayer target's real name
--the prayer target's location
--a (please keep it short!) description of what you want others to know about the prayer target
--the prayer target's ambition in life (taking a cue from The Crystal Silence League) 
--a relatively recent photo of the prayer target (if you know how, I request that you reduce this size of the photo if it's enormous)

The first version of this expanded e-mail version of the prayer list will go out early next week. If you are interested in receiving it and you're not signed up already, please send me a message at the aforementioned address.

On a different matter, this is the last week of the month. Anybody who has not given an update on their prayer request within the last month, who has not already arranged a longer prayer duration with me, is subject to the whims of my simple divination, and may be removed depending on the result.

With that, we return to our normal, regularly scheduled Ecosophia Prayer List notice!
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