I wasn't raised religious, so when I learned about prayer used to believe you could pray to anyone you liked, like a sort of magic telephone.
I spent all summer one year praying to my friend two streets away, then getting angry when I saw her and she hadn't got my prayer messages, and accused her of ignoring me on purpose.
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 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
- In the Hail Mary prayer, I used to say 'Bless a dark fowl among women' rather than 'blessed art though'Anon