A good question

At the end of a long post about various and sundry, Sam relates a question from one of his children that struck and has stuck with me ever since:

“Why do we pray from a list instead of just praying about what we think to pray about?”

Why, indeed?

And why the special prayer language? Everyone talks about a personal, Father/Abba relationship with God but when it comes to prayer we all revert to KJV Thy-and-Thine verbiage. ('d'ja ever notice that you can belong to the most "The Message"-reading church but when it comes time to recite the Lord's Prayer everyone's right back to the KJV?)

[Sam, the comment from your co-worker reminded me of a favorite saying from someone I used to work with: "Bitter, party of one...your table is ready". Or another friend's, "Get down off that cross - we need the wood." :0) ]