Comparing Miller And Azurdia's View Of Prayer

In 1923, excavators from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, led by Herbert E. Winlock (Museum Egyptologist), found fragments of statues belonging to the time of Hatshepsut when they began clearing the area in front of the temples of Hatshepsut and Mentuhotep II. As a result further excavations of this area were undertaken by the Metropolitan Museum during the seasons of 1926-27, 1927-28, and 1928-29. These excavations were predominantly carried out in two important locations: a depression southeast of Deir el-Bahri temple (also called the “Hatshepsut Hole”) and a quarry northeast of the temple. [1] The Metropolitan Museum crew started to reassemble these fragments and by 1931 the reconstructions were complete and offered a rather large collection of statues and objects from Hatshepsut’s temple. More statues have survived of Hatshepsut than any other Egyptian Pharaoh. Ironically, this was due to the destruction of these statues a mere twenty years after they were created.

In the original short film, the role of religion is seen in a positive light and the father remains at the center of the ordeal, as the camera follows him and allows the audience to observe his actions and beliefs firsthand, with the sickly boy acting secondary to the father. Although the audience witnesses the suffering of the father, the suffering of the little boy goes relatively unnoticed. However, by allowing the young boy’s true suffering to become the center and depicting it as larger than that of the father’s, Hayes allows the audience to understand that in the darkest of moments, religion or prayer will not end your anguish. This belief becomes further evident in the line “I am waiting/To be rearranged by the hand of God, which is not the hand/Of God, but the strip of cloth pressed against my brow…” (Hayes 57). This perspective also emphasizes the loneliness experienced by being abandoned by God, as the boy lays in a shack alone with no one, not even the dog that was present in the original film was there to comfort the little boy in the Hayes poem. The sarcastic tone of the line also suggests the boy has already given up his hope that prayer will solve his illness and has begun to look his predicament as bleak and unending, almost as if he has been abandoned. The sarcastic tone that again bolsters this perspective is seen in the quote, “By my father who has no medicine but prayer”. The little boy states, “I don’t know what I did to get here mumbling/”Pappy” and calling out to the ghost of my mother”, demonstrating the confusion of the little boy as he begins to realize that he has become abandoned and casts a dark attitude towards religion, contradictory to the original film’s purpose. Additionally, the suffering depicted in the boy’s situation can also be synonymous with the current problems faced by African Americans in

My father grew up during the time of the Khmer Rouge communist regime/ genocide in Cambodia. He came to America with nothing, went to college, got a job, and is now doing well. He and my mom raised us with high expectations and push us and help us in anyway to a better life than what they had. My dad, like Bandit has “showed ‘em”. I will be the second generation in my family to go to college with even greater expectations along with my sister in a couple years. My dad isn’t religious but my mom is and she prays for me everyday, probably multiple times. Like when Bandit is worried about his daughter going to college, my mom’s always worried about me and so it helps her to pray. God is a good source of comfort for her and can help lead to advice and how to deal with the ups and downs of

It was a morning routine before the kids headed out the door for school, the four of us stopped in the entryway of our home. Dropping the backpacks, we grasped hands and prayed together as a family. Jon had made it a habit of asking the kids if they had anything specific to pray about. The goal was to pray for the child's needs, the things that they worried about, whether the request was big or small it received our attention in the Entryway.

Prayer is an essential to any kind of religious faith. Over the years and years of believing in a higher power,

I had always felt that to pray there had to be some eloquent way to convey the things that you wanted to say to God. I also was often frustrated, as I questioned that if God was all knowing, why was it necessary to pray to him and tell him things he already knew. Throughout my time at NCYC I came to understand my relationship with God less like a human and omniscient being relationship, but more as a parent and child relationship. Though He may already know what you have to tell Him, it is about building the communication and the friendship, so that He can work best in your life. The best analogy that I have heard about this was from one of the leaders of the trip, and he compared life to being in a marching band. From the point of view of the musicians, it seems chaotic and as though people are going in every direction for no apparent reason; however, from up

Begging the question is using the conclusion as a premise to verify the conclusion. This makes the statement unconvincing. In his letter he states, “Lastly, if God would lead you to pray for me, the Scripture he has impressed upon me this past year or two is 1 Corinthians 4:15…As I get older, I am seeking to increasingly love our people as I do my own children in order for our church to be a great family, because of the gospel of Jesus Christ,”(Driscoll 4). He starts by using God and ends with God to reestablish and imply that if it does not lead people to pray for him then the people are not good Christians and will be reprimanded by

“ Please God, please don’t kill my daddy”(203). People have very different beliefs and ways to show their beliefs. Junior shows his belief in God by praying for his father to arrive safely at the school. After losing multiple people that he cares about he became so upset and cold and he needed hope from God that he wouldn't lose his father as well. Some people do not believe that prayer works and use different ways to ask for things. Junior was so happy to see his father he started laughing. He knew that if he had a lot hope for his father to arrive safely that he would.

I want to help you catch a vision of a very different kind of father, the eternal who never fails to

Prayer will have a profound effect on the children. Those that are of younger ages will develop an attitude of gratitude because someone taught them to pray. They can be introduced to other gods if they chose to. They will renew the founding fathers’ ideals of what the United States of America was built on as far as God goes. In God we trust. Morals and values have almost disappeared completely in the public schools. David Barton wrote “ The schools have declined since prayer was removed in 1962. Teenage pregnancy rates have gone up 500%. SAT scores have steadily declined each year for 18 straight years since 1962. The United States is rated 15th among the industrialized nations.

I like what Dr. Tim Kimmel says, “Rules not tempered by grace block relationships with our children and lead to rebellion. On the other side, relationships without rules don’t result in grace either” (Grace Based Parenting, 2004, p. 37). We all need a little grace in our lives or we will not learn from our mistakes. I like this idea that Kimmel talks about and try to use it in my parenting. Parents defiantly should have a balance in their parenting or children seem to rebel or once they are out they are easily pulled into the wrong direction. I feel giving children grace and choices on how they should handle situations can help them make bigger decisions as adults. Incorporating prayer into our daily routine either first thing in the morning or before bed seems to be the easiest to me. In The Blessing, it is stated that, “we need biblical anchors to hold on to-anchors like the blessing” (Smalley, Trent, 2011, p. 29). Using scripture as a tool to raise our children and give them the connection with God will hopefully guide them in the right direction. Showing them the ways of the Bible and God gives them a foundation to make educated

Yang-Tan (2007) wrote an article introducing his theory using prayer and scripture to treat patients. Yang-Tan (2007) discuss two models the first, is called self-regulations which focus on recognition of mental events in the present moment and the second is involves adapting to openness and acceptance. Yang-Tang(2007) model combines prayer and scripture to help patience’s heal from their problems. The goal is to help patients to feel whole and experience healing through God. All patients sign an consent form to agree to this form of treatment.

Every child has a different perspective on life, a different idea on where it begins and where it ends. Change for the better is beneficial in some cases, others not so much. In life, a child should expect to lose their parents at one point, but it’s never expected for a parent to lose their child. Neither one of these instants are easy, but more recently this generation is struggling with religious uncertainty. In “Elegy for My Father, Who is Not Dead,” Andrew Hudgins paints the perfect example of the difference between the generations and their religious beliefs.

The question of the constitutionality of prayer in our public schools and public school system has been an ongoing controversy for the past three decades. There is only one way to end the controversy, and it is pertinent to the well being of our youth and our nation. We must keep church and state forever separate. Any form of prayer in the public school system is an explicit violation of the first amendment, is coercive, and harmful to not only our nations children, but to the nation itself. The question of prayer in school should never have even been a question, and the fact that it remains three decades later is nothing short of unfaithful to the constitution. One could even go so far as to call this issue unpatriotic, as we are

In the 21st century, the number of methods in which to treat a patient has increased. In modern society, the most common method for treating a patient is in the form of medicine. This is in large part due to the growing advancement of technology and research. In medicine many forms of treatment are offered to the ill, ranging from therapy, ancient healing techniques, and herbal methods. Of late, a different treatment known as intercessory prayer has gained some attention. This is the act of praying on behalf of patients. The history of intercessory prayer originates from religious people believing that praying on the behalf of the sick can heal the said patient. Intercessory prayer should not be supported in the field of medicine because prayer and religion are separate entities from medicine. Secondly, practicing intercessory prayer in a medical practitioner’s field of work is unprofessional.