Jul 9, 2008
I don’t know what Orison thinks praying is. If I knew, I probably wouldn’t like it either.
Orison:
I don’t like praying.
Me:
You don’t have to pray—you can just talk to Jesus.
That seemed fine to him.
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Ha, ha! Great. I love rolling with those punches.
I think you’ll have a lot of fun as they get a little older too.
Here’s a conversation we had about “following Jesus” while walking a couple weeks ago:
http://balsbaugh7.blogspot.com/2008/06/interesting-little-walk.html
I need to present prayer to my kids that way.
“What would you say, if you were talking to God?”
That’s funny. Kids are great.
Though he has a point… I don’t much like “praying” either, but just talking to God is more appealing.
a definitely better way of thinking about it.
A kid watched the cartoons that came on TV after the church program. The prayer meant the cartoons were almost on.
I don’t like cheese with holes in…
Just eat the cheese and leave the holes at the side of your plate…
hahahaha…thanks for sharing that insightful note. LOL LOL
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Well-said!
We make a pretty big deal about prayer – classes, books, tutorials, prayer meetings, popcorn prayers, ACTS, all the other prayer-acronyms I’ve learned about at various Bible study groups over the years – yet, basically, it’s all about talking to God. And the conversation becomes relational & personal & eventually less about me and more about God.
“I don’t know what Orison thinks praying is. If I knew, I probably wouldn’t like it either.”
Very insightful. I’ll bet similar thoughts go through the non-christians head about church, Jesus, ie. If I knew what they were thinking too, I wouldn’t want to join those christians either..