Prayer-studies

Prayer

            A young school boy rather idly inclined, noticed that a fellow student always

recited her lessons well, so he said to hear, "How is it that you always say your lessons so

perfectly?"  She replied, "I always pray that I may say my lessons well."  Amazed the boy

said, "Well, then, I will pray too."  So that night the boy prayed that he would do his

lessons well.  But then the next morning he could not even repeat a word of his usual

task.  Very much disturbed, after class, he ran to his friend to reproach her as being

deceitful.  "I prayed, but I could not say a single word of my lesson," he told her.  She

asked him if he had tried to learn the lesson at all.  He said he had not tried at all.  He

said, "I thought I did not need to learn it when I prayed."