The Philosophy of Prayer - To Pray is to Project Positive Thought

Many of us in life's ways learn of prayer when very young; we learn it from parents, from school and Sunday school as it is called, or by many more and varied means. We know because we were instructed to know that it is a form of asking our God to keep those that we love safe from the hazards of this life and the one promised. Not really being able at such an early age, to grasp the philosophy of what God is or means, we just take it on board from our elders, who in all probability have never stopped to think or question the proposition for themselves.

When growing older, we do begin to ask questions, as we go along the many and varied routes to knowledge, seeking that which life has to offer us. Some are still connected to that same belief system that they were given when very young but many others have since moved on. Some now, not connecting to any one particular way or belief but exploring the possibilities, in the same way yet different, which now present themselves to an inquisitive mind, as people are freelance and the many now make up their own minds about such things.

It brings to this of our living world a bigger outlook, as this is discussed many times over by an increasing number of people who are deeply interested in that of religions and beliefs. We do not have to have a fixed religion of any one kind in order to believe if wanting in any one thing we wish, we can change when ever we want our thoughts upon the matter.

Many prayers are said in and by groups, they choose a time and a place in order to meet those of the same beliefs. Some prayers are repetitive as they have been passed down through the centuries from times when prayer was confused with penitence instead of being a pleasant and spiritual experience. This attitude largely being inherited from those that belonged as they say, to holy orders with their strict discipline and severe view of this God they worshiped and the demands he placed upon mankind.

Many church buildings are set aside for people to gather, to say prayers and to talk of such subjects as the good in life, this bringing together people of like mind and principles. Some people hide behind this mask, not wanting to be seen as an individual with thoughts of their own so they dismiss them and carry on as they have done for many a year, relinquishing progress of thought in favour of the perceived safety of the philosophy of blind and obedient faith.

One always has options in life's ways, what wanting to believe in and what one should be doing in this of the enlightenment of now knowing so much more about this strange yet wonderful existence of which we are a part. We cannot shut ourselves away from evolution, it comes like a thief in the night, we not really knowing of its presence until it comes to the forefront with such a shock. So this of prayer and its making is really an individual thing that we do for self, knowing what to say and when to say it.

We do wonder at times who or what this God is or could conceivably be, where such an unlikely being resides and the purpose within our lives. We know we are, or so we have been told, in need of faith so that we may know the reason behind this God who is allegedly one that can make all things right for us, but in reality it is up to us what our prayers may be all about, how and when we put it over or not at all.

There can be but one that can answer to our deeds and that is self alone, no matter how many prayers we say, we are still that one person saying them in the ways we want

John is a happily married man, retired and of rather mature years who has found a great love for meaningful poetry now that the necessity to earn a living is no longer the overriding factor in life. This pleasure has now turned into a hobby because his wife, June is a successful poet with over one hundred poems published in both newspapers and books of poetry by a well known publisher.

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