Hello and welcome to RayFowler.org. If you are new here, be sure to subscribe by email or feed reader so that you don't miss any future posts. You can also check out the Top Posts page to get a feel for the site. Thanks for visiting!
Here’s a fun poem I shared as part of a message on prayer on Sunday. (A big thanks to Thelma Campbell at Plantation Community Church who first introduced me to the poem.)
“PRAYER ROCK” (Author Unknown)
I’m your little prayer rock
and this is what I’ll do.
Just put me on your pillow
’til the day is through.Then turn back the covers
and climb into your bed,
and, whack! your little prayer rock
will bump you on the head.Then you will remember
as the day is through,
to kneel and say your prayers
as you intended to.Then when you are finished
dump me on the floor.
I’ll stay there through the nighttime
to give you help once more.When you get up next morning,
clunk! I stub your toe,
so that you will remember
your prayers before you go.Put me back upon your pillow
when your bed is made,
and your clever little prayer rock
will continue in your aid.Because your Heavenly Father
cares and loves you so,
He wants you to remember
to talk to Him, you know.
In discussion class after the service, we asked if anyone had actually used a prayer rock before. One woman said she used to but she didn’t need it anymore. Her husband joked, “Yeah, now she puts it on my pillow!” Do you use any types of “reminders” to help you remember to pray?
Click here for more poems.
Click here for poems by Ray Fowler.
It used to be I would tell myself if I didn’t have time for Bible and prayer, then I couldn’t have breakfast. (Somehow I then found the time!) Then, I wouldn’t allow myself to read the newspaper if I hadn’t spent time with God…now, I start the morning with prayer and Bible before anything else. I brew a cup of tea and curl up on the couch with my Bible and prayer journal before I even turn on the computer and read your blog. First things first!!
First off, I began to sing this poem in my head to the tune of “I’m a Little Teapot”, which is now doing endless circles in my brain. Help!
On a more serious note, I have a great system for remembering to pray. I have had a lifelong habit of worrying. Many years ago, my very wise sister told me to “turn your worries into prayers”. Wow! That has been so effective ever since. When I start to worry (at bedtime, in the middle of the night, when I wake up and worry about the day ahead, and throughout the day)I just turn that worry into a prayer. This can mean lots of prayers during some days! But as well as causing me to pray, it also reminds me that I am not in charge - of my life, my family, my world - but that God is, and He wants us to put Him first, even in our worries.
Hope that helps any of you fellow-worriers out there!
Oh dear, I hope we can come up with a more serious tune than “I’m a little teapot.” How about “A Mighty Fortress?”