Why do YOU pray? What is it that keeps you coming back? How do you go on when you don’t feel as though your prayers are being answered? (This is also posted today at the Internet Café. I’d love to have you discuss this here, but feel free to join in the conversation over there...

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed Him. ~C.S. Lewis

Finding God is really letting God find us; for our search for him is simply surrender to his search for us. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick  

Prayer does not just fit us for the greater work. Prayer is the greater work. ~Oswald Chambers

God enters by a private door into every individual. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Never doubt in the dark what God told you in the light. ~Victor Raymond Edman

The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief, the closer is God! ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

No man steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man. ~Heraclitus