In Reply to: adventures in prayer: a true story of deliverance posted by Carol on August 09, 2004 at 23:48:44:
Growing up a Catholic I rebelled against the repetiveness of the rosary. In the Fam Berg denigrated the Catholics, Buddhists too, for the vanity of repetitive prayers. All the time I was a Berg cultie my idea of prayer was the emotional boo hoo hoo weeping and jabbering away "in tongues" à la Desperate Prayer letter.
Since I've left the Fam there are prayers which I now pray repetitively, one of them is the Our Father, and I can usually find a place of quietude, sometimes a meditative state of mind.
For me repetitive prayer is not mindless repeating of the words, it's a chance to use and concentrate the words of the prayer in application to myself & or my life.
Another prayer that I sometimes prayer repetitively is the AA Serenity Prayer: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."