All Quiet on the Southern Frontier

And on the subject of prayer, and since there's no news to speak of, I thought i'd share with you something that occurred to me during church today.
so at my parent's church, there is a pastor. Normal, you say, most churches do. Well, at this church they have a - special - way of praying. The pianist plays sweet, albeit intermittent notes/chords as the pastor or youth pastor prays. Now, the senior pastor has this habit of imitating the piano, namely, pausing in random places. Apparently the idea is to let the congregation ponder what he just said, or add their own pleas. But all too often he'll stop after saying something like "and we pray that you- *silence* - in all your great wonder..."
Now, I don't know if you pray a lot, but the basic idea is that his pauses are unpredictable and not necessarily connected with any sort of meaning in the prayer. They're just there for effect.
And today it occurred to me that it's entirely possible that, 10, 15 years from now, when he's a bit older, this same guy will be praying up there, and the poor man will have a heart attack and stop talking... and NO ONE will notice. For a good three minutes, at least.
A somewhat irreverent thought to have during prayer, but well... there it is.
May your prayers be sincere, and your silences, if they exist, full of God's presence.