I do not see prayer as a practice in which I alter God's behavior by pleading, begging, or even through putting in confident requests (Not that I do not make requests). Rather, I understand prayer as a willing and purposeful exposure of oneself to an other-worldly love that, twenty times out of ten, will regard us, and our fellow humans, with far more mercy and compassion than we do ourselves, when left to our own devices.
To pray is to place one's heart in the direct path of God's tornadic love, in order that it might contradict our evolved defaults, and awaken us to a love that we would otherwise remain ignorant of, and unresponsive to.
- Jeff Turner
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