 | Sondra Perl - 1994 - 272 Seiten
...night; I ended my day with, "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." I learned to sing "Onward Christian Soldiers Marching as to War," and still remember my first dead German... | |
 | John Goldthwaite - 1996 - 397 Seiten
...Goose by the Victorians. This is the famous children's bedtime prayer, Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. Insensible as we are to the possible loss of paradise for our own selves, I suppose we would... | |
 | R. Lamon Brown - 1996 - 116 Seiten
...prayer. Yet I was reminded of my own childhood prayer: "As I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord PRAYER my soul to keep. And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." I am sure some folks cringe to think of a little child praying about death; but, at least in my case,... | |
 | Tina Wainscott - 1997 - 326 Seiten
...tightening, though, aching with their deprivation. She started to say the Lord's Prayer, very softly. ". . . and if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. Unless, of course, You want to give me another chance." That's when she felt it. At first she... | |
 | Normandi Ellis - 1995 - 438 Seiten
...sleep, nothing guarantees that we will wake, and little children repeat their soulful prayers by heart, "If I die before I wake; I pray the Lord my soul to take." Most of us, exhausted by day's struggles, surrender willingly to the darkness and psychic depths.... | |
 | Barbara Kimes Myers - 1997 - 140 Seiten
...exacerbated the situation. "Now 1 lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." I didn't like that prayer, in fact I hated it. And after all I'd been through, understandably, I had... | |
 | Tom Harpur - 1998 - 262 Seiten
...blush, she still prays: "Now I lay me down to sleep..." It includes the particularly unfortunate line, "And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." I'm sorry to report that the same woman went on to describe her faith in a few sentences which... | |
 | Rufus Goodwin - 1999 - 262 Seiten
...words to address this mystery of night: Now I lay me down to sleep, And pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take. The very first word of this formula, Now, is worth pondering. If one really takes its meaning,... | |
 | Joseph Di Prisco - 2000 - 364 Seiten
...together." And we did. The kids started clowningly, but in a second their hearts seemed to be in it: "...and if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen." I enjoyed their undivided attention. "Notice, seniors, the emphasis on the word sleep.... | |
 | Gregory R. Peterson - 2003 - 276 Seiten
...children's prayer among twentieth-century Protestants went as follows: Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep And if I die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take. Over the decades this simple prayer has expressed the hopes and fears of many a devout believer.... | |
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I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. 
