Jesus & the Wrong Prayer.
I read the "wrong" prayer after communion today. Not sure why my eyes went to the second prayer listed, and rather than recite the prayer I've said for years, my eyes fell upon the "wrong" prayer.
There was only one other person in the entire congregation who knew the prayer by heart and said it aloud; he was a teenager who is mentally challenged, and he said the prayer to the top of his lungs.
So there I was alone in front of the whole congregation reading the "wrong" prayer and along comes Jesus in the "least of these"to pray with me as a living member of the Body of Christ.
I have a feeling that God heard that "wrong" prayer.
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Point of clarification:
You read a prayer that isn't normally read at this time. Did the kid in the back recite the wrong prayer with you, or was he doing the normal prayer by memory, thus making your prayer more obviously incorrect.
Not that any prayer is incorrect for reasons as silly as our worship schedules.
I ask because this is very familiar. We used to have a boy with autism in our church. He loved to tick off the items in the order of worship as they happened. And he had memorized everything. Occasionally I would forget something, which would REALLY bother him. Sometimes he might start whistling if he was frustrated.
But we loved him. He was our child, and this was his reality. It was no big deal, and in fact, added something kind of lively to the whole worship thing.
Thanks for your comment.
You are right and that was my point-- it wasn't the "wrong" prayer; it was the "other" prayer that is "official" but seldom used.
What made it so beautiful and touching was that the mentally challenged kid knew the prayer NOT normally used. Actually, he was the only one in the room who knew it by heart. :)
I like what you said, "Not that any prayer is incorrect for reasons as silly as our worship schedules" I agree.
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