Lately, Talia and Malachi have been trying to include every possibility in their prayers when it comes to asking the Lord to bless others. Talia was including spiders for awhile, and there were some prayers that followed "please bless all the spiders" with "and all the reptiles and all the mammals and all the fish..."etc. etc. Malachi got in the habit of including all of our ancestors, but upon discussion with Talia decided to extend it to "all the people who ever lived before us." They used to talk about how if you blessed everyone in the world and everyone in outer space, you'd forget about the astronauts who were sort of in-between - you know, outside of the world but still enough within the atmosphere that they weren't in "outer space." Then we had a lot of astronauts included in our prayers.
Well, tonight I heard a prayer of maximum inclusion. Malachi said "please bless everybody in the universe, and everybody in any other universe..." and then he thought for a couple seconds and said "...and everybody who isn't in any universe!"
Afterward, he and Talia agreed that finally, this time there was nobody who was left out.
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