Comments on: Family Prayer http://www.agnosticmom.com/2006/01/30/family-prayer/ Raising a Healthy Family Without Religion. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:27:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Stephanie Dueber http://www.agnosticmom.com/2006/01/30/family-prayer/#comment-14162 Stephanie Dueber Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:25:52 +0000 http://www.agnosticmom.com/?p=67#comment-14162 Sounds like God may be stirring in your children. Let them pray any way they wish. Maybe they will develop a relationship with God. Prayer takes many forms. Some may be uncomfortable to some, but great for others. Sounds like God may be stirring in your children. Let them pray any way they wish. Maybe they will develop a relationship with God. Prayer takes many forms. Some may be uncomfortable to some, but great for others.

]]> By: Ron http://www.agnosticmom.com/2006/01/30/family-prayer/#comment-128 Ron Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:48:01 +0000 http://www.agnosticmom.com/?p=67#comment-128 Sounds like she was most interested in just being close with everyone - sitting together and taking a moment to talk and be happy together. To hit the freeze frame for a second, because it was a special occasion. Its nice to understand that this desire exists independantly of religious doctrine and perscribed methodology (though her words were borrowed from such a system). Prayer could just as easily be described as a dedication - taking a moment - having togetherness time - stopping to think together - focus time - or giving a toast. It may be fun and useful to list several 'prayer replacement activities' (as the other comment put it) - and to integrate them into our family lives as little touchstones/focus-points of unity and love. Allison and I have a little thing that we do with the baby in the morning - we say "Welcome to a Wednesday!" with a tone of ecstatic joy. This morning we did it by saying "Welcome to your first February EVER!!" Its a dorky little thing we started. I look forward to more dorky things we'll start! Sounds like she was most interested in just being close with everyone - sitting together and taking a moment to talk and be happy together. To hit the freeze frame for a second, because it was a special occasion.
Its nice to understand that this desire exists independantly of religious doctrine and perscribed methodology (though her words were borrowed from such a system).
Prayer could just as easily be described as a dedication - taking a moment - having togetherness time - stopping to think together - focus time - or giving a toast.
It may be fun and useful to list several ‘prayer replacement activities’ (as the other comment put it) - and to integrate them into our family lives as little touchstones/focus-points of unity and love.

Allison and I have a little thing that we do with the baby in the morning - we say “Welcome to a Wednesday!” with a tone of ecstatic joy. This morning we did it by saying “Welcome to your first February EVER!!” Its a dorky little thing we started. I look forward to more dorky things we’ll start!

]]> By: Mary http://www.agnosticmom.com/2006/01/30/family-prayer/#comment-127 Mary Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:16:56 +0000 http://www.agnosticmom.com/?p=67#comment-127 I like the prayer replacement activity you came up with. We don't say a prayer before eating but there are those in my family (Catholic) who do. While I'm not into the praying to God thing, I like the idea of taking a breath and centering yourself before eating. Good idea! I like the prayer replacement activity you came up with. We don’t say a prayer before eating but there are those in my family (Catholic) who do. While I’m not into the praying to God thing, I like the idea of taking a breath and centering yourself before eating. Good idea!

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