Welcome to the Chapel

Is it bad form to blog about my "other" blog on this blog, if it serves a good purpose? If it is, too bad, I wear striped tights, have purpley hair and am in control of the keyboard for today's blog. Sorry :) But really, I think it's a good thing so please do read if you don't mind.

My other blog (and by "my" I mean JimmyEW and I...but mostly me) is called The Chapel and I conceived this blog while writing a prayer for my ailing father in the hospital chapel. I thought about all the people out there who might believe in a higher power but not belong to a church or have people in their lives that pray. Or perhaps they just might be too afraid to come forward with whatever they're struggling with and putting their prayer in a book like what I saw in the chapel at the hospital seemed like it was writing a note to God.

I called JimmyEatWorld and told him that I thought this was something we could do together to give people a place to go for prayers. I want people to use prayer post Chapel to write a note to God while giving readers the opportunity to pray for those in need of comfort.

I have no agenda with The Chapel, I just want people to be able to use it to find comfort no matter their religious beliefs. Sure I'm using a typical catholic looking priest in the picture but it is meant for all people. I suppose someone could happen by and read a Prayer Request then say a quick prayer to L. Ron Hubbard...do they pray to him? Someone get Tom Cruise on the phone, STAT! But that doesn't really matter, its here for anyone who just wants some good thoughts/prayers sent out into the cosmos on their behalf.

JimmyEW agreed it was a good idea and got us set up on blogger. Initially we wanted to be prayerpost but someone had that so we are prayerpostblog. However his schedule and all my other commitments haven't given me the time to commit to putting this blog out there for others to use and see and benefit from.

In my lamenting I happened across Jane the Sane and since her name suggests that she must be practical and ...sane...I decided to ask her what she thought. She was very practical and suggested I do a post here introducing it to everyone and to post a little icon saying "need a prayer" that will link over. Wow Jane, thanks for that tip, I don't know why I didn't think of it! So here I am...posting...and stuff.

So I'm calling out to all of you, anyone who is interested can be a contributer. Send an email to prayerpostblog@gmail.com and we'll add you as a contributor and specify if you want to receive emails when there are comments made. And if we have lack of prayers submitted through the prayer post email - or a contributors email, you can feel free to add content about prayer in general or just pick something out there in the world you'd like to pray for and post that. Like praying for children in a third world country or that Sister HB stops feeling guilty about EV-ER-Y-THING.

Thanks for your time and I hope you'll stop by soon. This is my one and only shameless plug.
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