What does it mean to ask the Lord to send the Wind? Let me give you some examples.

Together four eyes peered into the vacant alley of an overcrowded apartment complex. They wiped sweat from their faces as they watched the red sun of a hot day dip below the horizon, only to reveal the white moon of a hotter night. Next door through the paper-thin walls, they could hear a man and a woman arguing about the night before and the night before that. Upstairs, through the hollow ceiling they could hear the cries of abandoned children left to swelter alone in the hot night. There was no relief from the heat, and there was no relief from the angry emotions. The brothers' eyes looked on each other, and their hands locked together, as both mouthed the words of a silent prayer, "Lord, send the Wind."

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