Comments on: Grace or casseroles? A non-believer’s musings on prayer http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2008/03/23/grace-or-casseroles-a-non-believers-musings-on-prayer/ Honey Bowtie Music blog - where sticky songs meet well-dressed content Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:58:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Gary N http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2008/03/23/grace-or-casseroles-a-non-believers-musings-on-prayer/#comment-4902 Gary N Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:56:36 +0000 http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2008/03/23/grace-or-casseroles-a-non-believers-musings-on-prayer/#comment-4902 I prayed for you today. I prayed for you today.

]]> By: fke http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2008/03/23/grace-or-casseroles-a-non-believers-musings-on-prayer/#comment-4874 fke Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:04:21 +0000 http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2008/03/23/grace-or-casseroles-a-non-believers-musings-on-prayer/#comment-4874 It is a wonderful book and she is gifted in the way she describes herself and experiences. I loved the part in India best and her own calming experience. I also understand what you are struggling with. I lost both my parents over the Holidays, very old but just 13 days apart. I am an agnostic but was a peace with their leaving because my Dad was ready and my Mom wanted to be with my Dad and she believed in Heaven. So I would tell her to go on to him that he was finally learning to play golf, putting up her birdhouses, and digging up the garden for her. But there's nothing fair about youth who have not lived their full lives being taken. When my sister-in-law died in her early forties leaving two young children, her resolution became that somehow we all have only a limited time here, we just don't know how long since none of us get out of this thing alive. While I don't pray to a God, I do meditate and send all the warm, positive energy I can to others. I think prayer is a kind of meditation too, of course. And try to be thankful for each day I can send love and good thoughts to others. Sorry for the long post and have a great Tuesday. It is a wonderful book and she is gifted in the way she describes herself and experiences. I loved the part in India best and her own calming experience. I also understand what you are struggling with. I lost both my parents over the Holidays, very old but just 13 days apart. I am an agnostic but was a peace with their leaving because my Dad was ready and my Mom wanted to be with my Dad and she believed in Heaven. So I would tell her to go on to him that he was finally learning to play golf, putting up her birdhouses, and digging up the garden for her. But there’s nothing fair about youth who have not lived their full lives being taken. When my sister-in-law died in her early forties leaving two young children, her resolution became that somehow we all have only a limited time here, we just don’t know how long since none of us get out of this thing alive. While I don’t pray to a God, I do meditate and send all the warm, positive energy I can to others. I think prayer is a kind of meditation too, of course. And try to be thankful for each day I can send love and good thoughts to others. Sorry for the long post and have a great Tuesday.

]]> By: Ginger http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2008/03/23/grace-or-casseroles-a-non-believers-musings-on-prayer/#comment-4872 Ginger Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:33:29 +0000 http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2008/03/23/grace-or-casseroles-a-non-believers-musings-on-prayer/#comment-4872 Wow. What a powerful, beautifully written post. I will definitely be picking that book up, myself. Wow. What a powerful, beautifully written post.

I will definitely be picking that book up, myself.

]]> By: Kate O' http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2008/03/23/grace-or-casseroles-a-non-believers-musings-on-prayer/#comment-4870 Kate O' Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:04:30 +0000 http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2008/03/23/grace-or-casseroles-a-non-believers-musings-on-prayer/#comment-4870 Oh, you definitely should read it. You'll love it, I think. I'd be very interested to discuss it with you once you finish reading it (and, well, once <em>I</em> finish reading it -- I'm only through with the first of three parts). Oh, you definitely should read it. You’ll love it, I think. I’d be very interested to discuss it with you once you finish reading it (and, well, once I finish reading it — I’m only through with the first of three parts).

]]> By: Jon http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2008/03/23/grace-or-casseroles-a-non-believers-musings-on-prayer/#comment-4868 Jon Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:15:03 +0000 http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2008/03/23/grace-or-casseroles-a-non-believers-musings-on-prayer/#comment-4868 I got my sister that book for Christmas. I suppose I should read it myself sometime. I was wandering through Borders looking for inspiration and when I saw that book on display, there was like this whole weird moment of surreality -- our grandmother (the one whose piano I inherited) was named Elizabeth Gilbert, and it was like in some weird way she was there in that moment, and that book and the author were some sort of temporal conduit. And I wasn't even drinking ;) I got my sister that book for Christmas. I suppose I should read it myself sometime. I was wandering through Borders looking for inspiration and when I saw that book on display, there was like this whole weird moment of surreality — our grandmother (the one whose piano I inherited) was named Elizabeth Gilbert, and it was like in some weird way she was there in that moment, and that book and the author were some sort of temporal conduit.

And I wasn’t even drinking ;)

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