Lost Car Keys

[_Moniker]

Okay, before reading MAD and this board I NEVER heard of so many tales about lost car keys. I didn't even know Christians (of any stripe) prayed to retrieve lost car keys. I'm serious -- never heard this. It just appears so ridiculous and petty.

Anyway, do people really pray for lost car keys. They actually can't find them, fall to their knees (or whatever) and ask for God to intervene?

This seems, to me, to be a good way to keep faith, really. I mean, how often do we all lose our car keys and then never find them again? Don't we all usually find them? I can't recall EVER losing my car keys and then not finding them somewhere. So, if I stopped and took the time to pray before I found them anyway (as I will do!) then I would just attribute that to God?

Good heavens! Should I pray to see if the sun rises tomorrow morning? I think I shall. After I do so I'll wait up for it and then know God is present in our world and in my life.

Praise Be To God -- finder of lost car keys and sun riser extraordinaire!

Hallelujah!

[_Inconceivable]

Are these the same Mormons that ask God to bless the chocolate brownies and punch to "nourish and strengthen our bodies and do us the good we need" at the end of yet another fireside?

Couldn't we ask God to do the same for Pepsi, beer, cigarettes and methadone (and get the same result)?

When I lose my keys now, I take responsibility for my ineptitude.

When I scarf a brownie and a cup of sugar I know what it is going to do to my health too.


no vote necessary.

[_truth dancer]

Are these the same Mormons that ask God to bless the chocolate brownies and punch to "nourish and strengthen our bodies and do us the good we need" at the end of yet another fireside?

LOL!

I ALWAYS thought this was weird.

No use eating healthy foods when one can just pray that garbage becomes nourishing. Seems lots of LDS actually believe that God does just this. I guess their faith allows for the miracles... or something.

;-)

~dancer~

[_evolving]

I believe a more likely explanation to "the car key miracle" is simply - once you recover from the panic of misplacing your keys or wallet, you re-trace your last few steps in your mind and wham!! you remember where your item is..

if this remembering happens during or shortly after a prayer. the entire event becomes a subtle reinforcement of your entire belief system and relationship with the divine..

It has been my observation, for believing Mormons, finding your lost keys is a testimony building experience that somehow translates to "God is behind you, the Book of Abraham issues will be resolved some day, no need to worry your little head about it"

[_skippy the dead]

I ALWAYS thought this was weird.

No use eating healthy foods when one can just pray that garbage becomes nourishing. Seems lots of LDS actually believe that God does just this. I guess their faith allows for the miracles... or something.

;-)

~dancer~

I never actually thought that folks were seriously praying for the cookies and brownies to be nourishing or strengthening. I always saw it as a repetition of a rote prayer that people used at mealtime for food, and they were simply too lazy or ignorant to realize that it didn't apply to sugary snacks. (And yet I was repeatedly told by leaders with pride that the church did not use rote prayers like those awful Catholics.)

And I voted that I am the almighty god for finding my own car keys. I have the power!!

[_Moniker]

Hallelujah! I had to run out of my house for errands and of course I had to find my car keys -- I never put them the same place twice...

I told my son, "Go find mommies car keys, please."

He did!

Oh! I think he's a lil messiah!

[_Moniker]

And I voted that I am the almighty god for finding my own car keys. I have the power!!

My son has usurped your power in my home! No false idoltry here!

[_Inconceivable]

Next time you lose your keys, test your faith by asking God just to help you unlock your door or start the car without them.

[_skippy the dead]

Actually, I think it's a waste to ask God for such silly things. If I've got an answered prayer coming my way, I'm concentrating on getting large sums of cash. Then I can just have lots of extra car keys made, and not have to worry if I lose one.

[_The Nehor]

I ask God to help me find something I've lost all the time. Let me clarify though. I don't drop to my knees and start a formal prayer over it. I just talk to him in my mind. But I do this a lot without thinking about it.