From FoxNews.com…

You’ve heard that people get religion when the chips are down. How true it is!

On a stopover in New York yesterday, I walked in clerical garb down Wall Street, where stocks closed down 504 for the day. I felt like a medical doctor arriving to an isolated town in the Amazon jungle toting visible, life-saving cures. Men and women with long faces and furrowed brows gravitated toward me like terminal patients looking for a spiritual lifeline. Most started off nervously just asking for prayers, with a half smile, not quite sure if God even cared about Wall Street.

“Why, why prayers, what’s wrong?” I responded each time. More wrinkles in those brows. “Are you the only one in New York who does not know the things that have taken place?” they asked in disbelief.

‘What things?” I continued, “Tell me.”

These simple questions released the dam. “Everything is uncertain, and there is nothing I can do!” “And besides…” and then every story was unique.

Uncertainty and impotence are a frightening combination. They have a way of undressing our deepest wounds.

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