Now I lay me down to sleep ...

by compound complex 34 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  FlyingHighNow

  Now I lay me down to sleep,
  I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
  If I should die before I wake,
  I pray the Lord my soul to take.

  One of the few tender things Mamma did for me was to teach me this prayer. She would come to my bedside and say it with me. I was very grateful to her for that. As I got older, I had long conversations with my grandfatherly and kindly god. I stopped praying at 14 after my mother neglected my health and a bad scene at my grandparents home on Christmas. I felt abandoned by God. And let down. Father Hamm told me last year that I was grieved to my soul at that time. JW's did not restore my healthy way of praying. They just added insult to injury. Now I do pray again. But there are times, like a lot of the time since Andy had his wreck and Mickey left, that I just tell God every few days, "I'll just hold onto the hem of your garment. I won't let go completely. It's all I can do for now." And it does help me a lot.
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  compound complex

  I'll just hold onto the hem of your garment. I won't let go completely. It's all I can do for now." And it does help me a lot.

  Those heartfelt words bear repeating ...

  Thanks so much ...
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  FlyingHighNow

  Thank you, Co Co. I let go of God when I was 14 and the next few years weren't good. I fell into the clutches of JW's at 17. And then when I left them, I let go again. I don't get good life results when I lapse into agnosticism. That is why I hold onto his skirts, like a baby to its mother's aprons strings. I have never been an atheist.
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  Sad emo

  I used to pray that prayer at night too CoCo

  This one in the mornings:

  A ngel of God,
  my guardian dear,
  to whom God's love commits me here,
  ever this day,
  be at my side
  to light and guard,
  to rule and guide.
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  Crumpet

  Now I lay me down to sleep,
  I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
  If I should die before I wake,
  I pray the Lord my soul to take.

  When I was a little kid, that's what I prayed at bedtime.

  Loubelle - this immediately made me think of the Metallica song - one of my faves of all time too.

  When I was a kid, when I was a twenty something, and now I am 32 I still like to mosh to this around my living room.

  I love the line - hush little baby, don't say a word, and never mind that noise you heard, its just the beast under your bed, in your closet in your head! (Gee-tar!!)

  So if I pray at all its for understanding of the beast in my head, feeding it, depriving it, embracing it, rejecting it and again.