I have limited time this afternoon, but I would write a text even reporting from Washington Antonio Cano (El País, Sunday March 15, 2009). The report is titled, "Obama was born the alliance-Lula" and is subtitled: Presidents driving a new model of relations in the Americas. Antonio Cano says the following: "Obama began confessing that has long been a big fan of Lula. The Brazilian president returned the compliment saying that since Obama became president pray more for him than for himself" (italics mine) because has never known any other case of a president who, in just 50 days, has had to face so many huge difficulties. Do not want to be in his position, Lula acknowledged. Let us pause a moment in this statement of Lula Da Silva: pray more for Obama than for himself. I have been interested in this sentence two aspects: 1) Lula pray. And 2) that Lula read more for Obama than for himself. I have to admit that this matter of prayer seemed to me very seriously. I also pray. Although intermittently. And I pray more for others than for myself. I can just pray for myself. I paste the intention of praying to refer to myself, I change the sentence becomes dilated and breathing when I think and pray for any person to whom or for whom I am deeply concerned. For many years, in fact, that only I pray (my way) by others. Rarely and only very dry, piecemeal, by myself. Explain this, I believe, within the context of this blog, perfectly adequate, I do not think there is a personal God who hears my prayer. I do not believe in a providential God or personal, a bit for the same reason I do not believe in the Resurrection. At best, I admit that there is a world "noumenal" transempirical, which can be lied to or alluded to in number by serious and consistent religious experiences. This world is subjective and can not be subject to any direct or consequential verification and can not be no common object of intersubjective consciousness. The world of the divine must be bracketed and treated in suspension, suspended in promoting imaginative and prayerful awareness disbelief (this is the great paradox). So the self-referential personal effect of speech is nihilizado, strikeout, in my case. In contrast, when I'm worried about someone, for their health or their happiness, I can make prayer (and even prayer request) but I do not think that is going to be any kind of response. Either directly or indirectly. This prayer for someone else, I opened a field however respiratory and clean, clear and warm, where I can think openness of intent, selfishness, narcissism, on the other person as part of a community of creatures unknown or known whose welfare or for whose success I pray. Clearly, as Lula Da Silva, I have had a Christian education, and although I'm radically outside any institutional religious circuit, I still have an instinct to pray for someone that worries me or who I admire or who I want. I am very grateful to Antonio Cano for having stated in his report the details of the conversation between Lula and Obama.