Do you pray ??

josevolution

To Anyone
Anything
I have lately i didn't know who or what to pray to but i started, evr since i heard some bad news about a friend of my son's,who is 15yrs old and was diagnosed with a form of Lukemia SO I STARTED everynite anyway he recently got some good news they have found a donor bonemarrow match for him and now i can't stop evrynite/day i'm allways just asking that Brian makes it thru he has a really tough battle ahead of him ..

Do you pray :?: :?: ...just curious .but i have been asking God .

eMMI

I do, occasionally.

it's not something I necessarily do every night before bed and every morning after I wake up or anything. but then again, one can pray in so many different ways. you don't always need words to pray.

I'm not saying that saying a prayer on a certain time every day is silly to me, definitely not! it's just not how I go about things.

pandora

Yes- kids do that to a person- thats really when I started to pray was for my children.
Its scary as a new parent and my boy was pretty sick as a newborn.
But then after awhile it feels right to have "someone" to talk to that doesn't judge, that loves me, and has my best care at heart and that of the people I love and need.
Praying is comfort for me now but its not maybe like you think- I've never been a church goer.

Got a hard hard head

No. I used to in my younger (and perhaps more naive) days. Now I just can't accept a superior deity, demanding he/she/whatever be praised unendingly in the vain hope that this will be rewarded by our lives becoming a little less stressful. On top of that, we are expected to believe that this all seeing, all knowing power is similar to the weakest species on the planet - man.

Whatever power is out there it's completely and utterly oblivious of us and can't help us even if it was possible to do so.

dimitrispearljam

yep..when i feel to

Poncier

pandora wrote:

Yes- kids do that to a person- .

Yeah, you pray they'll just go to sleep so you can have a little bit of peace and quiet.

pandora

Poncier wrote:

pandora wrote:

Yes- kids do that to a person- .

Yeah, you pray they'll just go to sleep so you can have a little bit of peace and quiet.

Yea so true
Hey is that your bird in your avatar? so cute- we (well now my daughter) has a cockatiel who will be 18
years old at Halloween-Pumpkin

Poncier

pandora wrote:

Poncier wrote:

pandora wrote:

Yes- kids do that to a person- .

Yeah, you pray they'll just go to sleep so you can have a little bit of peace and quiet.

Yea so true
Hey is that your bird in your avatar? so cute- we (well now my daughter) has a cockatiel who will be 18
years old at Halloween-Pumpkin

Yeah thats our budgie (parakeet) Prince. He's 10. Has a pretty good vocabulary, and now faces constant torture from a 5 year old who likes to poke straws and such through the cage bars.

soulsinging

not anymore.

pandora

Hey is that your bird in your avatar? so cute- we (well now my daughter) has a cockatiel who will be 18
years old at Halloween-Pumpkin[/quote]
Yeah thats our budgie (parakeet) Prince. He's 10. Has a pretty good vocabulary, and now faces constant torture from a 5 year old who likes to poke straws and such through the cage bars.[/quote]


uh oh- Pumpkin would make short work of that- he can be a little scary- he talks too of course. My fave is he does the micro wave sounds and sings Winnie the pooh
Prince is just lovely.

Poncier

pandora wrote:

uh oh- Pumpkin would make short work of that- he can be a little scary- he talks too of course. My fave is he does the micro wave sounds and sings Winnie the pooh
Prince is just lovely.

When he was younger, my wife tried to teach Prince to sing the Oscar Mayer Weiner song...He never quite got it, used to sing "Oh I wish I...Oscar My Wiener"...mostly just would do "Oh I wish I" in a musical tone. Seems to have forgotten it now.

We've derailed Jose's thread nicely.

Black Diamond

Did as a kid
Not until recently
Back at it

pandora

Yes we have- those darm birds!
but I was wanted to ask soulsinging "why" but felt to personal maybe ??

soulsinging

pandora wrote:

Yes we have- those darm birds!
but I was wanted to ask soulsinging "why" but felt to personal maybe ??

not really. i just found no comfort in it anymore. i came to believe there was nobody listening, so i stopped.

Ms. Haiku

Yep, I have a nightly ritual, and I usually do impulsive quicky praying through the day just to get through it. During a runner's high it is such a beautiful feeling I sense the most direct communication is going on between me, and that which I can't see.

decides2dream

i do.
every day of my life probably.
and i am agnostic, so go figure...
seriously tho, brought up catholic so very difficult for me to remove myself from the idea of 'god' in that sense, but even w/o that....i still get such peace from prayer, and a sense of wonder....and i believe there is *something*...a life force, what have you. not 'someone' truly listening necessarily, taking notes and granting favors tho that'd be really nice...but even if it's just within myself, or life in general - the connectedness, the energy...i do truly believe prayer works wonders.

g under p

Yes, I Pray For Grace

Why must I feel like this today
I'm a soldier but afraid sometimes
To face the things that may
Block the sun from shinin' rays
And fill my life with shades of grey
But still I long to find a way
So today I pray for grace

I take a moment to myself
So I can myself
To feel myself
And be real myself
Life's addictions and afflictions
Cause abrasions from their friction
Sometimes, it's easier to live in fiction
I can run, but I can't hide
From the pains that
Reside deep down inside
There is no pill
That can be swallowed
There is no guru
That can be followed
There's no escapin'
From my own history
Those that I hurt,
And those that hurt me
I was dead for a million years
'Fore I was born and
I'll be dead for a million more
After I'm gone
So I live, to give somethin'
That can live on
Like the way you hum a song when the music's gone
Like the warmth on the sand
When the sun goes down
And I'm sittin' with myself
Nobody else is around but,

(Chorus)

Been a long, long time
Since I been away
Been a long, long time
Since I felt this way
Been a long, long time
I found the words to say
How much I'm grateful
For my life today
'Cause under every cup
You might find a nut
Behind every corner
You might get jacked up
At the end of every rainbow,
You might find gold
The last bite of your sandwich,
Hope you don't find mould
'Cause none of us
Can live the perfect life
The kind that we see on nick at night
And sometimes, we all
Just lose sight
Of the pain that will guide us
From dark into the light
We fall down yes, but we get up,
And sometimes we just need
A little bit of love
To help make it
Through another day
Into the night, into the light,
Into a Saturday
So in the morning when I'm waitin'
For the sun to raise
And my head's a little foggy
Like I'm in a haze
I remind myself that
Everything is gonna be okay
I take a breath, slow down and say...

Peace

pandora

soulsinging wrote:

pandora wrote:

Yes we have- those darm birds!
but I was wanted to ask soulsinging "why" but felt to personal maybe ??

not really. i just found no comfort in it anymore. i came to believe there was nobody listening, so i stopped.

Yea I guess it comes down mostly to need -
I was hoping it wasn't disillusionment or loss of trust with maybe a need now unfulfilled but it sounds like
you've found your beliefs.

the wolf

i do from time to time.

i'm not even sure what i believe anymore about the whole god thing.

but i do pray.

actually that is part of it when i pray about, to help me figure out what i even believe.

ledvedderman

When I think the plane is going down, yes...

PureandEasy

Yes I do, quite often