What is your most common unrealistic prayer?

[RvW]

Just curious if anyone prays for unrealistic or silly things...something similar to what I pray for.

I am consumed, even SICK with the thought of aging. Not because I fear death, but because life was so incredible being young. Experiencing things for the first time!
I often pray that one of two things could happen. Either to be young again, go back in time, or to be given another opportunity at life from start to finish. I find myself wishing and hoping that heaven is nothing more than simply being in the same state of mind as a child.
How I wish I was 13 years old again. Though I doubt many people would want to live the life Ive lived I wish I could do it all again just to experience the few good things that have happened.
To be innocent, without worry and responsibility. Most of all to be ignorant to so much evil and controversy and human suffering and the pain of life. Total absence of any of the million things that consume our minds as adults.
No thought at all to "survival" Our parents took care of that.
Oh what I would do to be there again. To look up to my father or my grandfather with such admiration and trust.
To sit by a river, with my feet in the water, laying in the sun and resisting the last dose of sleep only due to being afraid to miss any of the incredible feeling. To have absolutely nothing to do but to look at the sky, and the trees and the water and feel as present and unaffected as those things are.
To get so much joy out of such simple things as a box of sand and a toy dump truck Or to be so disappointed that the sun is going down because youre having such a good time with it there.
Would it be a miracle? Could it be any more of a miracle than what god is capable of?

Its funny but I have so many more important things to pray for and give praise for but I always find myself asking god "if its possible, let me do it all again...please!"

Just thought Id share that. I hope heaven is similar if not the same as life when youre a child. I'd be perfectly content to be there.

[Ethical hunter]

I would say prayers for money or monetary gain.

EH

[Bartman]

That I catch the first fish of the day

[Bartman]

apparently the Gods listen to my daughter ALOT more!!! because she tends to

[blacktail519]

I would have to say i am guilty of praying for monetary gain.....But ya know, It's getting to that point that is the trying and difficult part, but i think the prayers could still be answered, theres just a heck of alott on our part to be succesful in what we do and our ventures.

Doug,
You spoke above about what you imagine it to be once you have passed on..... I have a little story for ya.

My sister and her husband lost his Grandfather this last summer. Brian was very close to Gramps. He started to get preety sick, and spent alott of his last month in bed. One afternoon Brian and my sister had stopped by to visit and just give a bit of comfort, and Gramps was asleep....He Gradually awoke as he heard Brian in the Room talking...... He Was happy to see Brian, and had a huge smile on his face and seemed excited.. He Said " He had the best dream ever. He was being bathed by two beautiful islander girls that seems to be twins." He said it was great!!! Now this is coming from a 88 year old man.

Anyway, a couple weeks passed, and Gramps got worse and worse, and they ended up having to have some hospice nurses at his home to help.

Brian stopped in a couple days later to see how the nurses were doing, and was completely shocked to see two Hawaian sisters to be the Hospice nurses giving him a sponge bath in his bed!!!!!!

Now you can believe what you want, But Brian believes that there was a hand of God involved in what happened and does not believe it to just be coincidence.

Gramps passed away a few days later, but Brian felt rest assured that Gramps was happy with his pampering Islanders.!!! It was a bit weird for him to witnessed, but Amazing to say the least!!

I think When we are passed on, it is everything we could ever aske for.!!

[RvW]

Thats a great story Todd. Smiles are few and far between lately, I worked one up with that story.