Tea, Toast and Prayer 2 - The Happening

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Date: 30 May 2007 06:56:56

Dave has an excellent post on having ideas.

Tea, Toast and Prayer was an idea that didn't work out entirely as planned but was fun to put together and meant I did see a small number of my friends last night, (& even pray a little with other people). So I'm marking it down as an experience rather than a failiure.

This idea had come out of a longing to reconnect with the past to some extent & pray like you do when you're young or atleast like I did on occassion when I was younger (i.e. creatively and with enthusiasm). I miss the fact that it was ok to be passionate about prayer and do it in a freer way with others in your own home when you were younger. I miss the way prayer meetings just often happened rather than being planned. I miss the fact that prayer was something akin to a party but with everybody focused on God. I miss the fact that when it was organised it was organised to make you think not follow formular. I miss the fact you found out about the world when you prayed and people shared their dreams. I miss the buzz that you get when people who don't know the boundaries or don't care about them come together and get real with God.

Still as a result of me putting together a basic atmosphere (News 24 on in the background on mute, sweets, paper, felt tips, bibles, local paper and books with prayers and thoughts in on floor and various appropriate websites on screen and an appropriate playlist on in the background) I do now have a few more tools to use in my own prayer life to mix it up a bit & so that is cool.