Prayer

To whom it may concern:
Um could you please make this lottery ticket be a winning ticket?
I promise I will give a little to the poor.
To Whom It May Concern:
Could you do something about the Gas prices?
Thank you for this earth,
Thank you for my life and the lives of my family and friends.
Thank you for all the people and the animals, of this earth
Thank you for everything that makes me happy.
I petition that no one gets shot, stabbed, raped or beaten up today

There are so many different types of religions; people have their special way of expressing how or what they communicate and worship. They are passionate about their faith and teach their children to believe the same way. Train a child the way he should go and when he is old he will not turn from it. (Proverbs 22:6) The teaching is passed down from generation to generation. As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. (Joshua 24:15) It usually doesn’t change for the child until they leave home and begin to question or challenge the foundation of their faith. At some point a child will either decide the way they were raised is the way they want to continue or decide there is a better way.
What is it that a child “won’t depart from” the logistic of prayer or words of prayer or the basis or spirit of prayer.

Prayer is an earnest request for something, with a slight chance or hope things will change. It is sometimes expressed in praise, thanksgiving, confession sometimes it is a chance to vent.
In a public form unless everyone agrees on a particular way of praying it is unfair to make every one pray in a dictated way. If you go to a private Christian based school then yes you pray the way that church prays and study the bible the way that church studies.
But in a public school any prayers or studies would have to be sensitive to all faiths.

When someone addresses a letter “to whom it may concern” it is because they don’t know who would get the letter. And this is a way to address the person with respect.
When people pray they know who they are praying to, to ask someone to pretend not to know is as unfair as to insist someone else to pray a dictated or generic prayer. People who pray or meditate are very passionate with how they pray. Anyone who prays believes the way they pray is the best way.
And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. (Eph 6:18)
In a corporate prayer it has to address everyone’s concern from pre-Christian Europe to Abrahamic religions to eastern religions to anism to neopaganism. How do you generate a spoken word that will address every one? Catholic vs. protestant both believe in Jesus Christ and his teaching but the logistics of each faith varies slightly and that variance caused a riot.


When you wake up in the morning you might spend time on the side of the bed you call it just trying to wake up. Someone else calls it meditation others calls it prayer.
Prayer or meditation centers you; it gives you a chance to, quiet your spirit, think on the greatness of the universe, voice your concerns, or make a request. What I see as greatness may not agree with what you see is greatness but never the less it is still great.