Exploring our childhood memories, the positive and negative, the instructions and the lack of teaching, helps to guide
our adult prayer life.
Not exact matches
Children and
adults are no longer required to recite
prayers or pledges which may contradict their personal / religious views and are not required to advocate a government message on their personal property (e.g. they can not be forced to display a state slogan like «
live free or die» on their license plate).
An entire
adult life spent in
prayer and fasting in the temple may have equipped her for high status in the ancient world, but to us such choices are nearly incomprehensible.
Psychosis / most psychiatric illnesses often arise in adolescence or in early
adult life however 75 per cent of children with mental health disorders / issues do not get the help they need — I fell into that 75 per cent, I was misdiagnosed by a doctor and then the self - induced trance - like altered state of consciousness induced by intense / deep meditation and
prayer coupled with the theology about how
prayer and God work in a Christian's
life (more on this below) just pushed me right over the edge.
Your
prayers are simply wishes, hopes, dreams, and while it is important to have an active fantasy
life, being unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy is an essential part of modern society (and being an
adult).
In fact, he retells his story as an
adult living in Toronto, in a house whose décor» a portrait of Our Lady of Guadalupe rests beside a photo of Kaaba; a brass statue of Shiva stands beneath paintings of Christ; a
prayer rug lies near a bedside Bible» inadvertently displays our protagonist's eclectically tacky approach to religion.