I love your stories Padraic, that's just fantastic. It will pop into my head while i am trying to feet to sleep for years to come now. Beshatting oneself in a church.
I remember praying before big meals and when everyone else did in church (bowing, kneeling and standing were all just flock behavior, most of us were not actually paying any attention). I remember it being kinda quiet and I always had to look around and wonder 'am I doing it right?'. I find that form of prayer as a child was not for me.
Nowadays though, and for years, I just kinda say "Sup Almighty?" and she sends little messages encoded in the supposedly random, coincidental and inconsequential. Write that down. For me it works much better as a form of communication with It, prayer is so needy and whiney, I find. I like sheer and unadulterated gratitude. I try to say thank you for every breath and every heartbeat, but sometimes I get distracted.
Belief in God doesn't have to be religious and by someone else's standards and so absolute. Some people, methinks, believe on their own terms. If you counted Atheism as a belief, that would be a stellar example.
So speaketh the Space Chickens,
Bok bok bok,
-Pip
I remember praying before big meals and when everyone else did in church (bowing, kneeling and standing were all just flock behavior, most of us were not actually paying any attention). I remember it being kinda quiet and I always had to look around and wonder 'am I doing it right?'. I find that form of prayer as a child was not for me.
Nowadays though, and for years, I just kinda say "Sup Almighty?" and she sends little messages encoded in the supposedly random, coincidental and inconsequential. Write that down. For me it works much better as a form of communication with It, prayer is so needy and whiney, I find. I like sheer and unadulterated gratitude. I try to say thank you for every breath and every heartbeat, but sometimes I get distracted.
Belief in God doesn't have to be religious and by someone else's standards and so absolute. Some people, methinks, believe on their own terms. If you counted Atheism as a belief, that would be a stellar example.
So speaketh the Space Chickens,
Bok bok bok,
-Pip
