Roget: "To Pray"

This is Gabe. Gabe likes spaghetti, and spaghetti likes Gabe. I can't tell you how many dark roads I've ridden down with his mother; she sang songs that would break your heart six ways to Sunday; I stared out the window. Today is Gabe's first day of school. It's also (hopefully) his father's last day of chemo. So send a little prayer their way, and if you're not inclined towards prayer, do whatever it is you do when you try to make things right in the world.

If (sadly) somewhere between the lattes and the cabs, the ink pens and the spin classes, you've forgotten what that thing you do is, you can always consult your thesaurus:

Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus
Main Entry: pray
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: plead
Synonyms:
adjure, appeal, ask, do a little dance, beseech, brace, call your mom, commune with, crave, write a poem, cry for, entreat, take a long walk with an old friend, implore, importune, slice zucchini lengthwise, invocate, invoke, wash the dishes in soapy water, petition, recite, wish your stepmother the most wonderful birthday ever (Happy birthday, Linda!), request, flap your wings, say, solicit, sue, love, supplicate, urge.