My parents were very proud of my saying my prayers while kneeling beside my bed. In the Poem "Jentle Jesus meek and mild" I mis-spoke the line "Pity my simplicity" as "Pity my simple city". This at least made sense to me at a time in my life when the original was, to say the least, obscure! The trouble was that my reading was never corrected and any witness was encouraged to giggle at the pius child.
A childhood belief about prayers
others believed things like this
- I used to think the song"jesus, oh what a wonderful child so holy, meek and mild" was "so holy, Mickey Mouse"— Stephani
- I used to think that the priest at church was JESUS.
He had a beard.... it made sense— Joe B - I had my wife convinced that Steven Hawking made his fortune as the original voice for the speak N spell toy.Anon
- I used to believe that the last line of Row Row Row Your Boat was 'Life is butter dream'.— Mindless Misfit
- When I was a child my mom told me that when it rained it was because the baby Jesus was crying.— Tatiana
- I used to think that the line in the song "Life in the Fast Lane" was "Fights in the Bat Plane".Anon