Dear friends,
As you may know, tomorrow I am taking my final exam in my integral calculus class. Of course this class in imperative to my educational track and I have failed it once already. By my math, if I have a passing grade on the final tomorrow I will have a passing grade for the class.
I am emailing to request your thoughts and prayers and while I have never heard of someone writing the prayer out for those who will be praying it, I thought there is a first time for everything. So please print this and when you hit your knees tonight to thank the Lord for the blessings in your life, please pray this verbatim so there will be no confusion on what exactly I will need help. I believe that this should be non-denominational, so feel free to use it whatever your particular beliefs.

Oh (insert deity here):

I have a special request for you. My dear friend Shaun Cotner, IUPUI student ID # 1221220 (no joke), is taking a very important final exam tomorrow and we would ask just a few things of you in your infinite power to guide Shaun to success.
First, (insert deity here), please make Shauns mind clear as he tackles problems fist solved by Isaac Newton 400 years ago. And give him the wisdom as he attempts to apply correct techniques to evaluation of integrals, both proper and improper, to the designation of infinite series as either convergent or divergent and to the calculation of derivatives of all levels of parametric functions.
Here is where we really need help, (insert deity here). Please allow the writer of the test to exclude the sketching of polar curves as Shaun has not mastered these techniques and could use a pass at this time.
Also, please send the hungry children some food.
Amen

Many thanks, SRC