When someone asks me - and it has happened - if I'd like them to 'pray with me', I say No, thanks. Perhaps because I grew up with 'silent prayer', I don't know.

If someone asks me if I minded that they pray FOR me -which too has happened- I say, Thanks, couldn't hurt!

On the other hand, if I came to know that a nurse or a friend or whoever started out each day with the prayer that they do the best they are capable of for everyone they meet that day, I would be touched and respectful.

I am lways taken aback when someone says, upon narrowly escaping harm in an event where others died, 'The Lord was with me'.

What? The Lord wasn't with anyone else?