Our listening to God is an on-again, off-again affair; God always listens to us. The essential reality of prayer is that its source and character are entirely in God. We are most ourselves when we pray.
Eugene H. Peterson. Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading (p. 104). Kindle Edition.
If we are most ourselves when we pray, then HOW we pray defines who we are! Do we pray smally and selfishly, seeking much and being willing to do little? Or do we pray largely, open to all that God is at work doing in the lives and world around us? How revealing it would be to realize, not that "We are what we eat." but that "We are how we pray."
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