for just one night

ramadan is reaching its end. many people have bruised foreheads (literally) from praying so hard and hitting their heads on the ground so often during this last month. at the end of ramadan is the eid, which is a three-day feast and all out gorge-fest to celebrate the end of the month of fasting. kids have it off of school. most businesses are closed. many well-to-do families go on trips to other, more interesting, parts of jordan and the middle east. everyone, including us, will be celebrating the end of ramadan, but for various reasons. ours, of course, are more to do with having a place outside of the house that we can go to study, since all restaurants/cafe's are closed all day until after the iftar, which is the fourth prayer call, at sunset. i think everyone's looking forward to having lunch if they want to. i know everyone (i'm being totally serious, approximately 70% of the adult population smokes) is looking forward to smoking in public during the day.
tonight (the 27th night) is a special night of prayer, when the most devout will be praying through the entire night, either hoping that successful completion will bring them (guaranteed) salvation, forgiveness of past sins, or signs and visions in a prophetic moment. we pray too, tonight and every night, that these things will happen in people's lives in a fuller sense than they can even imagine. would you join us in this, tonight?