At first, I didn't understand how God could answer so many prayers from everyone in the world at the same time. I concluded that God must have a gigantic call center in Heaven (or perhaps in India?) where angels took people's prayers the way technical support people took calls. However, I realized that this didn't make sense because lots of times everybody is supposed to pray at the same time (such as during services). I thought that if you prayed during "off-peak periods" your prayer would be answered more quickly and you would be less likely to be put on "hold".
A childhood belief about prayers
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when I said my prayers, "God Bless..." meant please keep burglars awayAnon
- I used to believe that every country in the world had the same time. Guess I didn't consider time zones eh?— what are time zones again
- I didn't understand about boiled eggs until my Mum explained I wasn't supposed to eat the shell as well.— Chris
- I thought you were supposed to drive down the center of the road.— Cassiopeia
- I didn't know whether nail files were supposed to make your nails sharper or duller.Anon
- For the longest time I used to believe that "Dracula" was a gigantic gorilla with fangs, not unlike King Kong.— Mark Cidade