i dont precisely understand what you're saying to me
Oh, I'm not saying it to you as such. More thinking out loud to myself about what seems to me to be the oft-repetitive subjects that I discuss (even with my polymathic tendencies).
Maybe I need to take up scuba-diving, bungy-jumping, or lead-lighting for a new topic :)
I have an interesting prayer story... a friend of mine in Queensland is a "Christian Unitarian", of course, not distantly related to our ilk at all and a regular attendee of a UU fellowship etc. Anyway, as life is, he developed a cancer. So he visited his local church, an Armenian one and asked if they would pray for him. They said "We'll think about it"!
So he visited his UU fellowship and said "Look, I know that most of you don't believe in this, but I have cancer, do you mind praying for me?"
So they did. And the cancer went in remission!
We joked about it at the last ANZUUA conference, the mental image of God sitting at a desk with all these telephones from the various denominations, ringing like crazy as various requests come in, and many of them quite trivial. Over on one side is a dusty old phone entitled "Unitarian-Universalists", thank hasn't rung for years. When the light flashes up, God thinks "I haven't heard from them for a while, better see what it is..."
So on that note, my non-believing prayers for the U.S. eastern seaboard :)
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Date: 2013-02-11 12:09 am (UTC)Oh, I'm not saying it to you as such. More thinking out loud to myself about what seems to me to be the oft-repetitive subjects that I discuss (even with my polymathic tendencies).
Maybe I need to take up scuba-diving, bungy-jumping, or lead-lighting for a new topic :)
I have an interesting prayer story... a friend of mine in Queensland is a "Christian Unitarian", of course, not distantly related to our ilk at all and a regular attendee of a UU fellowship etc. Anyway, as life is, he developed a cancer. So he visited his local church, an Armenian one and asked if they would pray for him. They said "We'll think about it"!
So he visited his UU fellowship and said "Look, I know that most of you don't believe in this, but I have cancer, do you mind praying for me?"
So they did. And the cancer went in remission!
We joked about it at the last ANZUUA conference, the mental image of God sitting at a desk with all these telephones from the various denominations, ringing like crazy as various requests come in, and many of them quite trivial. Over on one side is a dusty old phone entitled "Unitarian-Universalists", thank hasn't rung for years. When the light flashes up, God thinks "I haven't heard from them for a while, better see what it is..."
So on that note, my non-believing prayers for the U.S. eastern seaboard :)