prayers

The grown-ups in my church had a strange prayer based on Matthew 6:9:

"Our Father, who aren't in heaven. How will it be Thy name?"

(If He aren't in heaven, where are He?)

Vicki J.

when i was little, i believer that prayers were send in letters. so if i forgot something in my last prayer i would say: in my last letter i forgot to tell you.....

Becky

I used to think that in the Catholic blessing that my mom says at dinnertime, she was thanking God for giving us the food "from thy bound teeth," and couldn't make any sense of it for years. I still think it sounds like that. (It's "from thy bounty," for those of you who aren't familiar with it.)

Dragonfly

When my family and I said Lord's meal prayer before each dinner (Bless us, O Lord, and these Thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.) I always laughed at the word "bounty" and/or said "bounty" loudly. I thought it was a reference to Bounty paper towels. ;)

Matt Thiel

when people at church would say amen during a prayer in agreeance to what had been said in the prayer, i used to think they said amen because they thought the prayer was over. You can imagine how proud of myself i was as i was smarter than a bunch of grown ups and ALWAYS said amen at the right time. 0=D

smart and naive

I used to think that if I prayed enough, God would turn me into Superman.

Anon

my little borther richard would not be convinced that it wasnt "our father who aren't in heaven ..."

tony

I used to believe that when i said my prayers at night, if I forgot anyones name, even their pets names,when asking God to bless them, something bad would happen to them.

Anon

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 little I used to think that if I didn't do the sign of the cross before praying God would not listen to me, so when I would forget to do it I would start praying all over again even if I was almost finished.

Josie

In Church we say this prayer called "Profession of Faith" or something similar to that. One lines in the prayer goes like, "For us men and for our salvation". When I was little, I thought it was, "For us men and for us salvation" and that 'salvation' was another word for 'women'. =P

Sarah W :)

I thought that if you prayed really hard you would become pregnant. I later thought that kissing got you pregnant.

Mia

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

Bruce

When I was little I heard one of my teachers explaining that prayers will be answered if you have faith in God. I took what she said literally, and expected to one night hear God's voice speaking to me beside my bed returning my prayers. Eventually I figured out what she really meant when we talked about it in class.

Lauren

i used to believe that if i prayed every day for wings, i would get wings. i was told that god would give me anything i prayed for. so i prayed for wings. and every day would check the mirror and thought that the bones in my back were the beginning stubs of my growing wings.


... they never grew....

Matt B.

My mum thought the Lord's prayer started:

'Our father, Whitchett, in Heaven...'

Thinking it was his postal address?!

Ian

This happened to me when I was a child of about 4 or 5 years of age:
My mother used to pray with me every evening before I had to sleep. Eventually she abandonded this habit but told me, that it would be very important to pray independently, e.g. for my brother, sister, grandparents etc., because god would be allmighty and could see and do everything.

Firstly I prayed every evening, because I believed in what my mother told me. But by and by I grew weary of this and so one day I prayed: "God, if you are really allmighty and if you really can do everything, could you please,please pray for me every evening ! "
After doing this I breathed a sigh of relief, because I felt freed of my duty. Honestly, I never told her...

Anon

I used to think that if I didn't say "amen" at the end of a prayer, God wouldn't receive the prayer (I thought it was like clicking "send" on an email). I cried all the time because I thought God didn't think I loved him because I would always fall asleep before finishing my prayers.

Anon

i used to believe that god would help me find parking spots.

C

I was rasied Catholic and attended catholic grade school. We were told to pray for something really important and we would receive it through Jesus. Well I started to pray for this really cute outfit I saw in a window store. I prayed for that outfit to 'appear' on my bed for weeks. Needless to say, the outfit did not 'appear'. But a year later I received an outfit almost exactly like the one I prayed for, as a gift. How silly of me to think Jesus would give me something so material as a outfit. But, because of the way I prayed I do beleive He made it possible for me to receive it.

Carrie