The Real Reason Why Kids Refuse To Go To Bed.
I am planning a quilt based on the Truth (as I perceived it) behind a common childhood prayer. You know the one I am talking about... I can clearly remember thinking "If I should WHAT before I wake?? Wait just a minute here...". And then, if you forgot to bless someone you cared about at the end, they would die. How could a kid sleep with that kind of anxiety??
My solution to dying or being killed in my sleep was to NOT sleep- willingly, that is. I can remember every single detail of the view from my top bunk and when we moved to the house in the suburbs, I would creep down the hallway and hide under the lace-draped dining room table just behind my parent's field of vision and watch TV until after the Tonight Show. Something about Johnny Carson made me feel safe. And he looked a lot like my Dad.
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Ha...I have a similar memory! Four, mom saying the "prayer" & then trying to calm me down as I panicked at the possibility of death…don't remember her ever saying the poem again. Yours is much better!
My mother, a good Lutheran lady...prone to rote prayers, also recited this one to me. I just never really 'cottoned' on to the dying part...but then mom and I never did see eye to eye. And now I have lived longer without her than with her...in spite of that icky rote prayer and two bouts with serious cancer.
Lucky me, the line was changed to: "and in the morning when I wake, I ask the Lord what path to take."
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