MyPrayerPod - The Story Behind Creating a Prayer Tool

PrayerPod Story...or Diary of a
Well-Meaning Procrastinator
About 3 years ago, either divine inspiration or an
overactive imagination hit me while in church, waiting for
services to begin and walking through in my mind the
couple of intentions I wanted to pray for. A few people I
work with had recently had some personal difficulties, and
as I normally did I offered to keep them in my prayers. But
in my Swiss Cheese mind, I knew I wasn't recalling all the
intentions I'd meant to. Pangs of guilt soon turned to an
idea - what if there were a small, hand-held PDA-like
device that you could store and cycle through intentions?
And so was born the idea of a Personal Prayer
Intention Manager. Surely there are other
absent-minded, well-intentioned people like me. And surely
such a product already existed.

But I found none. And off I started on building a prototype
in software. I began using the prototype myself and was
convinced that the idea had merit.

And then I got busy. Surely, I would take that next step
when some time freed up. But everytime I had some free
time to look into developing the idea further, my
excitement was dulled. Taking an idea like this to the next
level would take considerable time and money investment,
and I simply lacked ample amounts of either. So I'd
procrastinate even more. In the meantime, I continued to
use my little software prototype, adding the ability to print
out a hardcopy of intentions. And it has helped me in
keeping my commitments to pray for others.

Well, three years later it exists in the same form...now an
idea of a mobile application (still on the horizon), with this
software prototype sitting collecting dust. So for Lent,
2007, I decided to table the larger plans for now, and see
if anyone else could benefit from the software PrayerPod
I created. Hence, this web site. I hope others find the
PrayerPod as useful as I do. And soon you may be able to
use the same applicaton on your cell-phone or PDA.

Happy Praying!

Dave

Lent 2010 Update!!!
The PrayerPod application is being ported to the IPhone
under my brother's company, Safe-T-Technologies. Look
for it to appear soon at the App Store under the moniker
PrayerSteward or Promise2Pray. Take a look at the
PrayerSteward web site by clicking the link on the left side
of the page!