by sacolton 23 Replies latest jw friends
I didnt like it but I could do it.
Just do like everybody else did thank all the right people thank god for all the right things and not make it too long.
2 or 3 minutes.
I would rather give an hour talk than say a prayer.
saying a prayer your winging it.
giving a talk you have an outline.
but prayers are the same thing over and over.
I can give public prayers pretty easily. The thing that gets me is saying the same thing over and over again. It's impossible to avoid saying things like, "Thank you, dear God, for the chance to be at this meeting. Please help us pay attention. Also bless our ministry and let your name be sanctified." Etc, etc. It's hard put any feeling into a public prayer because you can't say personal things without embarrassing yourself. So these prayers are boring and by rote.
My prayers were NEVER over 45 seconds, at least that's my guess.
-MF31-
It was always a little awkward speaking aloud to an imaginary dude while a bunch of grown adults pretended to be intensly interested in my every word, but not without its amusing aspects as well.
I hated it so I kept them very short - never over 30 seconds. Eventually they stopped asking me to say them.
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We had one brohter in our hall who will go on and on and on. Five minutes or more was not uncommon. He was 94 years old. The book study conductor would run 10 mins over lots of times and then ask this brother to say the concluding prayer. It was dreadful.
-mentallyfree31-
When a brother was called to say prayer I could almost recite word for word exactly what he was going to say...Never being a MS or Elder never had the problem...
I hated pretending to love that Almighty Lowlife Scumbag Jehovah by saying a prayer. At least the talks I could develop into something a bit less damaging should they take it and throw it back in my face.
I thought it was weird how tropes crept in to all the brother's prayers such as....."Heavenly Father Jehovah, we approach your throne of undeserved kindness through the merits of your son, Christ Jesus, to ask that....blah blah blah.."
I, personally, find extempore comes naturally to some and not at all to others. Those who struggle to pray aloud are the most sincere.
This is probably the best prayer I've ever heard.
