Holy Smokes! – Burning Prayers and the Burning Man

Question – How do you make holy water?

Answer – boil the hell out of it.

Question – What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino?

Answer – Elephino.

America has the Burning Man festival in Nevada each year.

Not to be outdone, perhaps, Japan has a burning prayer festival.

It happens a the Hosenji Temple in Nakano ku, Japan.

Japanese burn their prayer sticks at a ceremony at the temple thinking perhaps “to hell with these prayers if they don’t get answered.”

What do you do with your unanswered prayers?

Better yet, do you pray?