Prayer: The Conversation filled with Grace

We keep cribbing that we don’t receive what we ask in our prayers. We have to be patient. If the fruits of answered prayers don’t show up the fruits of praying and being patient surely do. Often the act of praying gives us things what the content of prayer does not. If a prayer is not answered, the very act of praying can strengthen us to endure what is lacking. Only if we continue to pray. After all, do we pray because we are needy. Or do we need to pray? We have to choose between the two dichotomous ideas and when we choose the latter, in ways only God knows, we begin to understand how the need to find prayer in our lives gives us what we pray to find in our lives.