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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460810" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0369 Prayer. To Mike, who asked.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Simplest prayer, soonest answered, <br>so it’s said; so let us be as little children<br>(themselves an answered prayer..?) <br>and ask the simplest questions -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">how? whom to? for what? and will we get<br>what we are asking for? promise? <br>suppose He or She or It thinks, (if They think anyway..) <br>that’s it’s a silly thing to ask for, <br>or just a bit too ‘me’ and greedy, <br>will they say no? will they let us know<br>somehow, that’s it’s no? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or will our justice be<br>to get what we think we want<br>until the day we wish we hadn’t asked for it? <br>or is it like the tale of the three wishes, <br>everything turned to gold – including us! …<br>another wish, please cancel; then<br>the last and sensible small wish, which may even<br>include the welfare of all others too? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some say the commonest of prayers<br>amounts to, please God, let two and two<br>please equal five…that prayers may only ask<br>what may be within the domain of the law<br>of our Creation; some even say that, given this, <br>we’ll always get what we wish for – eventually; <br>but that by some mighty, unalterable law, <br>as with the fairies gathered around<br>Sleeping Beauty’s cradle, as the Fates, <br>along with what we asked for, comes<br>a something else for which we didn’t ask…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">others say that there’s no difference<br>between the meaning of a prayer, and praise; <br>that in our praise, our prayer is surely shaped<br>and those who do not think to praise<br>may never know, to whom to pray, <br>or ever truly know, for what…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and others of a theologic mind<br>pray to be taught, for what to pray…<br>or instead of prayer, to learn to willingly accept<br>all that befalls them, as the gift of all<br>that they might pray for, for their good of soul…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">  *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">all this is for considering; but I suggest<br>that in the depths of grief, or heights of joy, we know<br>the place where prayer may arise: <br>so deep within ourselves, that it’s beyond<br>the asking or the answering; a place so deep<br>that there, our soul rests in peace, <br>all questions meet all answers, <br>and all desires are satisfied; <br>there is no loss, <br>and nothing lacks; <br>we are – ourselves; ourself; at peace; <br>and for that, we may surely pray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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so it’s said; so let us be as little children
(themselves an answered prayer..?) 
and ask the simplest questions -

how? whom to? for what? and will we get
what we are asking for? promise? 
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