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My First Written Prayer

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Inspired by Ecclesiastes 3 and Seasons of Life 1973–Sunday School St.Stephen UMC, Mesquite, Texas   My first prayer was the one everybody knows, “Now I lay me down to sleep…” I said it so many times I could probably say it backwards in my sleep. The second prayer I learned was about food— “God is great, God is good…” We’d fold our hands at the table and race through the words before the food got cold. Then came the big one, the prayer Jesus taught us Himself. The Lord’s Prayer. That one feels different, like it carries the weight of the whole church inside it. It’s not just words you repeat, it’s a prayer that feels like it keeps on praying long after you’ve finished. But there’s one prayer I can’t forget. Not because someone else gave it to me, but because I wrote it myself. It was in Sunday School, the teacher told us to take a scripture and use it to make our own prayer. Most kids went for short verses. I picked a looong one, Ecclesiastes chapter 3— the one about seasons “To eve...