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What is a prayer? Can it be a blessing?
When I was a child, I had to say grace at every meal...a routine really
Nowdays, when preparing a meal ..I thank the animal ( cow, pig, lamb chicken) ..for sacrificing it's life to sustain me and my family...
Is this a prayer? If not why? .
I do thank the Creator of the Universe for creating the animal that has given it's life to sustain my life.
Basically, I do not want to take for granted any gift that I have been given. In times past we would go hunt or rear the animals we eat.... and have to kill them... nowadays...all that responsibilty is removed as we buy our hunks of meat from stores...
Thank you for your answers
4 Answers
- Busy Lady 2010Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Yes, I remember going hunting with daddy.
We got rabbits and squirrels.
- ?Lv 61 decade ago
A prayer is an offering to God. It is a sacrifice or a conversation with the Almighty.
Thanking the dead hunk of meat in front of you for its flesh - if it was a prayer - would be worshipping the creation instead of the Creator. A form of paganism, which sees the Divine in nature, instead of above nature.
Source(s): Orthodox Christian - PARTYMARTYLv 61 decade ago
Prayer is a conversation with the Creator of the universe. Tell Him anything that is on your mind. If you READ your prayers they are the words of someone else. God wants to hear from YOU. God speaks to us through His word the bible and we to Him through our prayers. Religion has made a mockery of prayer but if you personally talk to God , in your own word, He listens. Matt 6:9-11
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Fr Alexander hit it right on the head.
