God probably answered her prayer because in December 1997 the Zimbabwean Supreme Court awarded Econet Wireless a license to set up a mobile telecoms company in Zimbabwe.
Told her group that Dios Santísimo had answered her prayers.
Yet another told us simply that we had answered her prayers.
"God came quietly into Mom's kitchen" and answered her prayers, he said.
She believes she has simply converted from a silent idol who never answered her prayers, to one whose sermons spoke to her in ways she had never known before.
There is, inevitably, gospel call and response, the devotional fervor of which Celie comes to resent (nobody's answering her prayers) and later to embrace on her own terms.
Late Tuesday night, however, the Senate answered her prayers by passing legislation, which, once signed by President Bush, will put Washington in the terrorism insurance business and make it likely that such coverage will be available.
The goddess answered her prayers, transforming Arethusa into a fountain, in which form she fled to Sicily's eastern coast, settling on the island of Ortygia, the heart of what became ancient Syracuse.
She didn't exactly think that Merle was a sign or a gift from God — my mother was a member of the Church of Christ, and very religious, even sternly so — but she firmly believed, after Merle was born, that God had answered her prayers during pregnancy.
And she feels God answers her prayers.
I'm not sure how much actual "prayer" went into "her" decision and what the constitution of that prayer was, but it presumes that she prayed to God for an answer and, at some divine moment, God divinely answered her prayers and must have said, "Sarah, don't run".
