When will it end? The Common Council of the city of Detroit has been striken with another legal bombshell: Monica Conyers has been hit with federal bribery charges, and it seems only a matter of time until she is forced from her seat.
Her all too typical reaction? Arrogance, this time in the form of asserting that anyone who does not pray for her to be saved from the current mess of her own making is not a 'child of God'.
Interestingly, she is right. Sort of. But certainly not for the reason she cites. We indeed ought to pray for her: not that she escape the prosecutor's noose necessarily (though it is of course more than acceptable to pray for that should she in fact be innocent of the allegations) but that she should see and accept whatever God wants for her in this debacle. Our prayers might be aimed for her to accept His Grace and take proper responsibility for herself and her actions. We might want to pray that she see the light, sees the embarrassment she has become to the city and her family and friends and give up the ghost.
We might want to pray that she stops seeing herself as the center of the creation and leave that role to He who actually is. Am I asking too much?
Maybe I am. In that case, let's hope that Ms. Conyers begins asking for enough.
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