Prayer assists, do you have them or use them? Prayer beads, prayer sticks, etc.
By writersedge
@writersedge (22563)
United States
September 20, 2010 6:42am CST
They can be anything, a picture, a mandella, a candle, music, an image you hold dear in your mind.
I was brought up with a rosary (prayer beads). I learned in a workshop to make a prayer stick. I made the prayer stick and placed it near an entrance of my home. It helped me to remember to pray. I've also used pictures. I used music, mandellas and candles more for meditation, but I could use them for prayer.
I did a search of prayer beads and I find it interesting the variety and number of religions that have them.
So what have you used for prayer? Do/Does they/it help you to concentrate more? To remember? What do you like about the prayer assist(s) that you use? Have you tried others?
I find different religious customws and techniques interesting. Do you?
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@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
21 Sep 10
Nope, just me and G♥d, just like when I talk to my best friend, don't need anything but words to say and a heart to say them..lol Makes it easy on people who don't have the means for "things" so they can talk to G♥d because some people in the world barely have homes, let alone something special to talk to their creator. I also like that it doesn't matter where I am, because I can talk to Him in my head, knowing He knows my thoughts and my needs, what an awesome G♥d He is..
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
21 Sep 10
Thank you, I was just wondering. Esp. since I need to make stuff for our sale. I have both crosses and Native American Music, so I thought there might be something I could make to add. I don't use the crosses any more. Some of the Native American music I can part with and some I can't. When I researched, I found out lots of different groups use beads and other things to pray. Take care and thanks again.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
23 Sep 10
Fashunaddykt, hi, how are you?
Answer these questions and I can probably at least help you decide if you're Christian or Pagan.
1. Who was Jesus to you? Savior? Son of God? Prophet? Religious Leader? A nice guy? A figment of people's imagination? More than one of those and which ones. None of those, you believe _______________ about him.
2. What do you believe about the Bible? The one and only book of God? One of many books of God? A nice or interesting book? Other_____________________________
3. Is God male? female? both? neither?
4. Why do you think you might be Christian?
5. Why do you think you might be a Pagan?
6. Why are you in need of a Path?
7. What do you want this path to help you with or do for you?
8. Have you been brought up in any religion? Do you agree with that religion or disagree with it in some areas? What areas?
9. What have you done to search for answers?
What you believe determines whether you're Christian or Pagan. What you need and where you are now determines your path. Does this make sense to you?
Interesting that you would choose this discussion started by me to pose these questions.
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@Fashunaddykt (61)
• United States
23 Sep 10
I haven't even been praying. I'm having a bit of a dilema when it comes to religion. I don't know whether I'm christian or a pagan. I need a path.
@GardenGerty (157907)
• United States
20 Sep 10
As far as I know, the tradition I am with does not use any of the assists that you list. Actually, I need to correct that. Usually we do not. We use written lists, and we make our own. For instance, as I am online, if someone asks for prayer, I stop then, and pray, but I also make a list for a later time. From time to time, for special occasions, we either make prayer cards, with the need and the person printed on it, or pictures of students, for instance when we sent a mission team to Nicaragua and sometimes we do a printed magnet for something like a capital campaign or for a foundation or an institution that our church is associated with. Written lists help.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
20 Sep 10
I forgot about that.My religious facilitator has a list of the people who have asked her to pray for them. I usually just stop and pray for someone. I don't usually make a list. But most people don't ask me to "keep them in your (my) prayers." Just to pray for them which I have done at that moment.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
22 Sep 10
I did do a prayer list in a different way. A list of what I wanted in a man. The wrong guys seemed to be drawn to me. So I asked that one with what I needed like on the list would be better.
@celticeagle (160015)
• Boise, Idaho
20 Sep 10
I don't pray. I do visualizations, I believe in the native america and wiccan beliefs. Ceremonial more than prayer. The Great Spirit is in the mountains, trees, and all things around us. I feel him there. I read about him and so I don't really pray to him. He is a spirit and all around.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
21 Sep 10
Visualizations are cool. Some ceremonies have prayer in them or some people just talk directly like talking to a friend. I guess it depends on your definition of prayer. I thank the food before I pick it as well as the Creator and Mother Earth. I call it a prayer, you might call it a ceremony.
