Some thoughts on prayer:

• Mrs Billy Graham told an audience of women once, “God hasn’t always answered my prayers … if he had, I would’ve married the wrong man several times.”
• At the end of a hard week at the office, our spirits were raised when one of the staff sighed thankfully, “I’ve prayed all week for Friday to come and today my prayers were finally answered.”
• A sign in an American High School toilet read: “NOTICE! In the event of an atomic attack, the federal ruling against prayer in this school will be temporarily suspended.
• A rabbi said to a precocious six-year-old boy: “So your mother says your prayers for you each night. Very commendable. What does she say?” The little boy replied, “Thank God, he’s in bed!”
• It’s easy to get mixed up when you are four years old and in church. This particular four-year-old prayer: “And forgive us our trash-baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets.”