When I was a kid I was afraid to say the prayer, "Now I lay me down to sleep," because I thought that saying the part, "If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take" would make god think it was ok if I died in my sleep.
A childhood belief about prayers
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that in the Christian Prayer of the Faithful, we were responding, "Lord, harrow prayer."— Smelleanor
- I used to believe that my toys would wake up when I went to sleep, and would play by themselves.Anon
- I used to have to say the Lord's prayer everyday, but I would wonder where my daily bread was.— caledonia
- When I was learning the Lord's Prayer, I used to say, "Our Father, who does art in heaven...."— Karen
I used to believe that the Lord's Prayer instructed us to lead a snot into temptation. — Susan- I used to htink that the Lord's prayer went "and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us some email..."— Dyth