Give us this day our daily bread — bread as in money. Hey, God! This state needs money.
Gov. Mary Fallin issued a proclamation earlier this month naming Oct. 13 Oilfield Prayer Day in Oklahoma, as requested on behalf of the Oilfield Christian Fellowship. The proclamation originally stated that Christians acknowledge that these natural resources were “created by God,” though Fallin later changed the language to be more religiously inclusive.
If anyone somehow missed the Oct. 13 date, hopefully their unspecified deity accepts late calls and isn’t a stickler for deadlines.
“There are many people suffering right now who have lost their jobs in the energy sector… there are a lot of families who have been hurt, and I think prayer is always a good thing, for anyone,” Fallin told the Associated Press.
This is not the first time the governor has called for heavenly solutions to Oklahoma problems. In 2011, she urged the state’s faithful to pray for rain to end a near record-level drought.
Michael McNutt, Fallin’s communications director, told TheDailyBeast.com that Fallin is “not opposed to legitimate requests for divine intervention.”
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This article appears in Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2016.