delicious moment saturday afternoon house clean posted blog kids house reasons stretch couch read recent issue yorker sept started start comment column talk town time finished paragraph ounce peace contentment left rapidly escaping balloon relax news source election season comment hendrik hertzberg double damage stirred political religious rage knew trouble read words focus family read stuart shepard works organization asked internet audience wrong pray rain denver august evening barack obama slated give acceptance speech hertzberg writes shepard's answer apparently proceeded prayed rain abundant rain torrential rain rain biblical proportions denver august praying unexpected unanticipated unforecasted rain starts minutes speech begin adding people pray seventy-two degrees clear skies contest bellowed dining room jason child acting shame things refrain printing felt knowing clear obama gave speech hertzberg point apparently arranged hurricane severe disrupt opening republican national convention irony delicious confirms belief incredible sense humor humor push outrage publicly pray ruinous outcome event draw americans couch fuming wishing time jason ahead printed t-shirts slogan dreamed christians christians shirt immediately changed life mission communicating fact christians funny thing mission requires embarrassment label christian writer long time overcome fear half audience automatically dismiss grasp belief system depending what's news willingness identify beliefs waxes wanes wanes called yesterday ironically raining torrential rain biblical proportions layer irony irony church route flooded impassable blocks destination beginning turn passenger seat posting twitter twitter-user event flood post failed mention church imagined anti-christians finding funny keeping church wrote roads flooded cant figure town finally made parking decide street church coursing river rippling current lorna sitting parking seeking company people love working water church lobby faces friends children upstairs window sanctuary text renee people made church singing jason debated eventually we're kids excited shoes rolled pants charge girl forged stream side stepped curb water knees door welcoming committee larger usual dozen people armed squeegees brooms mops vacs soggy hugs upstairs sanctuary paused leave tweet parking longer waded church people stranded singing stranded words stranded storms rage floods arrive shape meteorological form christians cares bigger 