When he was a child,
he prayed to God for a pony,
never got it.

He was led to believe God
was like a genie in a bottle
that you prayed to for things
and you got them.

Throughout the years
most of his prayers went
unanswered

and he wondered if God
really ever answered
prayers

or if those prayers he
thought might have been
answered were merely
conindences

he never lost his belief
in God, but he became
a skeptic about the
effectiveness of prayers.

Bob Boyd