Article December 27, 1999 Issue

"In four days, something good will happen"

By Richard Lee Peters

That was the claim of the chain letter that popped onto my computer screen via e-mail one Wednesday. All I had to do was forward the letter to five other people and sit back and wait.

My initial reaction was to scoff, delete the letter, and go on with my work. "After all," I thought, "I know better than to think that some silly chain letter can determine my happiness." So, as fast as I was going through this cerebral dismissal, I was just as quickly moving the cursor to click the delete button.

And that's when the thought came to pray.

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