Was it something I said? (14)

abbiye: ....we should ask his secretary(angel martha)if she did submit your prayer file to him in the first place

smoky: I’m not much of a church go:er. Growing up in a Catholic environment where mother would drag us to Sunday mass, the preacher was about as brilliant motivation speaker as a depressed mountain goat chased off the edge of a 100m high steep slope by a pack of wolves, and the Sunday clothes always itched, you tend to run as fast as you can in the other direction once you’ve grown enough to decide for yourself.

I don’t pray. From the age of 15, when I got to decide myself whether I wanted to attend or not, to this day, I’ve probably prayed a handful of time, tops, the last being 4 years ago when on top of the Milano cathedral, right in below the Madonnina, we was to play Juventus at San Siro the following day, I prayed, for us to win.

Before that, oh, it’s probably all the way back to when I was 20-something, over a cousin who was killed in the war.

By the way, why do Sunday clothes when you’re a kid always itch? Are you supposed to hear the voice of god better in that kind of outfit?

If I try to remember all my prayers, they’re not many.

It’s that Milan-Juventus, game, which we lost.

Once, age 14-15, when the neighbor daughter stole my Game & Watch, I knew she had, I caught her later, I prayed she would grow loads of hair on her chest, but to my knowledge she never did.

One time, 11-12 yrs, when I was to do a paper route for a mate, two huge piles on a rickety old bike, it was pouring Biblical rain, and the papers would fall to the wet ground about two-hundred times, until there was not a single one left not soaked. I got pissed off when one man in a woman’s dressing gown stood in front of his door commented on it, took the papers to a spot of forest and tossed them in with all the strength I could muster. I headed home and prayed no one would notice. Of course they did, and I got a proper beating.

Before age 15 I remember I was praying not having to go to church on Sundays, but it didn’t help.

Age 16 I prayed for a girl who I was in love with to fall in love with me, but she never did.

I prayed, a few times during the 80’s, that just once, once, Sweden could beat the mighty red Soviet machine in hockey. Never happened.

I once prayed a lottery ticket would make me rich, and promised half would be given as charity and to family. Not the torn off corner on a smallest value bill did I win

So I wonder, all these prayers, what is it that I have done for none of them to come true. Was it something I said, god?[/ quote]

Why, No, me Darlin`..... twas not something you said - Twas your attitude that I remember.... You did not talk in a Normal voice - You used that "special" churchy voice that I just cannot stand listening to!

I do so wish that people would pray in their normal speaking voices .... You have NO idea how irritating that special "praying" voice is that you guys use! As soon as I hear that tone - I don`t know why, but I just absolutely switch off.

And another thing, while we on this subject. I wish you would not feel that you gotta justify your asking by telling me all the things you promise me before asking for what you actually want?

And another thing .... why do you all use such delightfully colourful language normally, and when you "praying" I dont hear one single "F" word? You never want to tell me how much you hate somebody or something either! I invented those feelings, and I like to hear exactly how you`re feeling, you cant fool me, ya know? So, when you are not honest with me - then I just play your same game back at you!

Now ... get down on them knees, and speak to me like you speak to your buddies! And don`t forget to say Thanks before you get up, cause when you speak right, then I do right!