A praying life

You can't have a story without tension and conflict, without things going wrong.  Unanswered prayers create some of the tension in the story God is weaving in our lives.  If God is composing a story with our lives, then our lives are no longer static.  We aren't paralyzed by life; we can hope.

Learning to pray doesn't offer you a less busy life; it offers you a less busy heart.

Paul C. Miller, "A Praying Life," pages 22, 25