Could you not pray with me for one hour
I tend to day dream during the day. It just happens. As a matter of fact it happened again this morning at worship. I know, right? This particular worship was at the Lutheran Center in Chicago. After the sermon we were invited to stand and sing a hymn and during the second verse, my brain hit the road. I don't exactly know where it was headed but my head was no where near the Lutheran Center. Suddenly and abruptly I was brought back from my mental pilgrimage with the words, "And we pray for Bishop David Brauer-Rieke, and the Oregon Synod and all their ministries." What? Suddenly my ears perked up. Why are they praying for us? Did we do something?
I have been thinking about this most of the day. I appreciate that people are praying for us but what is the difference between praying for some one and praying with some one? I wonder...What do you think?
Answer
So the answer would be,
"Yes, I can pray with you one hour, but please don't ask me to stay alert during a meeting."
How ARE those pain meds?
answer, also
Praying comes in many forms...Edward Hays in his book, Pray All Ways, takes the ordinary things we do in our lives and invites us to consider them as prayer. Spirit is funny sometimes...she leads us in a different direction, but we end up in the same place with others somehow. That can certainly be "daydreaming" - and who are we to argue. :)
A Blessing
Having someone pray for you seems to me a blessing. Consider the alternative: someone thinks "They don't need our prayers they have it all." Or, "They're not sinners like us, they don't need prayers like those who are suffering and hurting and down." We all have our trials and burdens and crosses to bear. It is truly a blessing when others make that latter assumption rather than the former ones, in my view.