How to save time

My mind is doing a lot of rambling for no Earthly use. Well, the rambling is useful for the blog, for the rambling gives me topics to write about.

This morning my mind was rattling around about efficient prayer! I think I’m on to something!

What it would be is that you write down all the prayers you know and like.

Then you would put a number before each prayer.

Then, in the future, in order to save time, instead of speaking or thinking the whole litany of any prayer, you would simply say or think the numbers. That would speed things up. You could say: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and you would be done in a flash. It wouldn’t take long at all.

What shall we call this streamlined prayer? Modern Day Prayer? Fast Prayer? Fast Check-out Line? Automated Prayer?

Certainly, it would be efficient, wouldn’t you say?

Oh, or perhaps we could have a special computer key, and we could press all our prayers all at once. We wouldn’t even have to spout off numbers. Just press one key.

But would God go for it?

Nope, I don’t think so. He wants us to spend more time with Him, not less.

P.S. I hope everyone knows I’m being satirical here, rather like Jonathan Swift, I believe. This is, of course, not to be taken seriously.

Posted by Gloria on August 16th, 2009 under these topics
computers, Godwriting Journal

Add your comment

Top

Post Discussion

6 Replies

Reply from Sally on August 16, 2009

That must be how prayer wheels were invented!

Reply from daniel on August 16, 2009

i had a friend the other day send me an email about a woman who asked him to pray for her and her son.
Basically there was an accident involving this lady’s son and a member of a gang. the member of the gang was killed and she feared retaliation from the Gang and specifically his brother who was part of the gang.
Anyway He asked Dad how He wanted Him to pray for this lady. Dad told him not to pray for the lady but for the gang that they would not be influenced to retaliate.
My friend was surprised by this.
It turned out the gang did come to town and the brother ended up coming to the this lady’s house. She said he stayed for a while and told about how his brother had a drinking problem and even they were trying to get to see it but he didnt and he apologized to them and gave the Dad a hug on the way out.
i thought this was interesting.
i thought you might find it interesting too.

Reply from One on August 16, 2009

I heard that someone invented a way to generate electricity from those prayer wheels. Apparently at some temples these wheels are spun by thousands of people daily. They would generate enough electricity to electrify the temples. How cool is that!

Reply from Gloria on August 17, 2009

I know I heard the term — prayer wheels — but I never had a clue to what they were.

I just looked up prayer wheels in Google:

a cylinder with prayers written on it; each revolution counts as uttering the prayers.

So this was serious. It’s kind of sweet.

Reply from Bert on August 19, 2009

This is verry good.

Reply from One on August 19, 2009

Going with your idea in terms of prayer wheels, at the entrance of the temple we could place a type of handle attached to a pulley. When turned the handle would turn all the prayer wheels in one revolution. 100s of prayers in one motion.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI