Do you pray ??

josevolution
josevolution Posts: 32,092
edited October 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
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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 .
jesus greets me looks just like me ....
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  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    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. :)
    "Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    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
    Got a hard hard head Posts: 638
    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.
    It's gonna be a glorious day...
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,726
    yep..when i feel to
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 18,029
    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. :mrgreen:
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    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. :mrgreen:
    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
    Poncier Posts: 18,029
    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. :mrgreen:
    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.
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    not anymore.
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    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
    Poncier Posts: 18,029
    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.
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    Did as a kid
    Not until recently
    Back at it
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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    Yes we have- those darm birds!
    but I was wanted to ask soulsinging "why" but felt to personal maybe ??
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    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
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,390
    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.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    i do.
    every day of my life probably.
    and i am agnostic, so go figure... :D
    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 :p 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.
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,247
    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
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    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
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    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.
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • ledvedderman
    ledvedderman Posts: 7,762
    When I think the plane is going down, yes...
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    http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    Yes I do, quite often
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go

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