when I saw those prepare to meet thy god signs I thought they were beauty parlours for religous ladies only!

knuckles

I saw this once as a child's intepretation of "Our Father which art in heaven": Our Father Whichard in Heaven ... "

Bruce

Always before supper we would say the prayer: god is good, god is great, let us thank him for our food amen. Well whenever i said this prayer i would always say: goddess good, goddess great, lettuce thank em for our food amen. One day it just clicked that ive been saying it wrong all my life.

Meghan

When I was young we started attending church for a few years. I had never been in a church before, and was actually half-Jewish. Every Sunday the pastor would ask everyone to "say the prayer the Lord taught us", meaning The Lord's Prayer. Because he introduced it like that, and because nobody looked in their hymnals while they said it, I thought that it was so sacred that it wasn't allowed to be written down. I thought there was some long, mysterious ceremonial process to learning it, and that we would never be allowed to learn it or say it, since we weren't "really" Presbyterians. (To my mind, you weren't "really" a certain religion unless you were born into it.) I found it in a book at the library and memorized it in secret, as an act of adolecent rebellion. I couldn't for the life of me understand why Mom was proud when I spontaniously recited it to her after a fight.

propchick

this isnt abouyt me but my little sister, a few years ago(she was 15) she went to a christening, came back and tells my mum,'it was really weird, they kept standing up and saying little poems, no one told me i had to learn poems'

Anon

When my brother was little he used to pray this before going to bed;

"Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I die before I wake, wake up cereal.

Alouise

When reciting the Lord's prayer I thought that the words at the end were 'thine is the kingdom, the car and the lorry, forever & ever, amen'

Jill

I used to belive that if I said my prayers at night God put up a powerfull bubble that protected me from monsters.

Eve

From the prayer "Our Father who art in heaven Hallowed be Thy name." A friend of mine (age 6 at the time) used to think it was "Howard be Thy name" and he used to think it was really cool that God's name was Howard and that's how he prayed to Him.

Matt

I dont remember ever praying much as a young child. The only time I tought I needed to pray was when I was sitting on the toilet and was afraid of falling in.

Anon

At the pre-Vatican 2 Mass' finish, a prayer to St. Michael the Archangel was recited. I used to say,"St. Michael the Dark Angel...." IT was followed by a prayer the Hail Holy Queen which refers to, "St. Joseph, thy most chaste Spouse". I always used to say, "St. Joseph, thy most chaffed Spouse."

Ken

When I was little my sister and I would say our pryers together every night. A passage in The Lords Prayer had me confused for years."lead us snot into temptation. I couldn't figure why something as foul as snot would be in a prayer.

little country girl

I remember that in year 1 i was making something in class and i got glue all over my hands. And when it dried up this other kid told my my skin was peeling off and that i was going to die. So i followed the teacher around affraid to ask her if it was really my skin peeling off.

Adam

When I was about 4, I was saying the blessing before dinner..."God is great, God is good, let us sink in for our food." Needless to say, my family still reminds me of it!

Jennifer