Prayer

Prayer reaches its highest peak when we ask God not to shield us from struggle and hardship, but to give us the strength to endure to the end. 


We should not ask God to subdue the mountain, to narrow the waters, but to give us mental and physical strength to climb the mountain, however steep, and to sail the ocean however wide. 


We should pray not to be protected from temptations, but for strength to face temptations without yielding to them. 


We should not pray to God to separate us from people we do not like, but pray for the Christian grace which will enable us to mingle with all of God's children without prejudice or snobbery. 


Pray not to be saved from physical death, but faith to face death unafraid.I like to think that this is the way Jesus prayed.
I like to think that in choosing his disciples he didn't ask God to choose them for him but that he prayed for wisdom to make the right choices.

Evans E. Crawford (Mays, Disturbed About Man, 81-82) JRT XXXII, 1 (1975)