{"id":24262,"date":"2026-03-11T15:51:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/how-to-pray-like-mister-rogers\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:17:54","slug":"how-to-pray-like-mister-rogers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/prayer\/how-to-pray\/how-to-pray-like-mister-rogers\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Pray Like Mister Rogers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I recently spent an evening watching the surprise hit documentary <em>Won\u2019t You Be My Neighbor? <\/em> about children\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/friends-and-family\/parenting\/children\/wont-you-be-my-neighbor-celebrates-the-life-of-mr-rogers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TV star Fred Rogers<\/a>. How wonderful to remember the charm, the humility, <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/entertainment\/movies-and-tv\/7-inspiring-quotes-from-mister-rogers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the authenticity of Mister Rogers<\/a>. He was the real deal. Here\u2019s what he knew about prayer:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1)  Give up all judgments<\/strong><br \/>\nFred Rogers was ordained a Presbyterian minister. Once as a seminary student he heard one of the worst sermons imaginable. Before he could share any of his unspoken criticism the woman sitting next turned with tears in her eyes and said, \u201cThat preacher said exactly what I needed to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As he pointed out, she had listened to the sermon in need, not in judgment. And she was the one who had grown from the experience.<\/p>\n<p>In church my instinct is usually to critique a sermon, my head full of comments (if I\u2019m not dozing) like \u201cWhere did that come from?\u201d \u201cWhat verse are you referring to?\u201d \u201cIsn\u2019t that what most people say?\u201d But to listen, to really listen to someone means giving up all those judgmental thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Listen closely to someone and you will see how valued they are, how loved by God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2)  Honor silence<\/strong><br \/>\nThe seemingly shocking thing you notice about the show \u201cMister Rogers\u2019 Neighborhood\u201d is how wonderfully, reassuringly, amazingly slow it was. Mister Rogers wasn\u2019t afraid of silence. In one remarkable episode he decided to show exactly how long\u2014how delightfully long\u2014one minute is. He put up a timer, set it for one minute and let the TV camera roll.<\/p>\n<p>The world is a noisy place. Our heads can be noisy places, full of more thoughts than we know what to do with. People will say, <em>You need to listen to God<\/em> as you pray. How can you do that without getting silent?<\/p>\n<p>On TV this kindly man showed just how. Slow down. Listen. Wait. With people he had all the time in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3)  Your own pain can be your strength.<\/strong><br \/>\nMister Rogers allowed himself to be vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Junod wrote a remarkable profile of Fred Rogers for <em>Esquire<\/em> magazine and was in the documentary talking about the man. But one story he didn\u2019t retell was when Rogers met a boy who could only communicate by computer because of his cerebral palsy.<\/p>\n<p>Mister Rogers asked the boy if he could do something very special for him, a big favor. Could he pray for Mister Rogers? Of course he would. He was stunned to even be asked.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards Junod commented on the favor Fred had done for the boy, a kid who was always the recipient of prayer, who was always seen as the needy one. How typically kind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, heavens no Tom!\u201d Rogers replied. \u201cI didn\u2019t ask him for his prayers for <em>him<\/em>. I asked for me. I asked him because I think that anyone who has gone through challenges like that must be very close to God. I asked him because I wanted his intercession.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I recently spent an evening watching the surprise hit documentary Won\u2019t You Be My Neighbor? about children\u2019s TV star Fred Rogers. How wonderful to remember the charm, the humility, the authenticity of Mister Rogers. He was the real deal. 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