The author reflects on how prayer has changed his life more than any of the spiritual graces, for nothing should be done without prayer. It involves labor and yet it becomes a supreme delight.
It took me ten years to learn to pray, and as I have been praying the Lord has been teaching me how. I have come to learn that prayer is acknowledging my absolute dependence on God. Prayer is the greatest expression of my faith. Prayer is contact with deity. Prayer moves God to do things he otherwise wouldn't do. Prayer is taking out of my hands that which I cannot do and placing into God's hands that which only He can do. Is it any wonder that Charles Spurgeon said that he would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach. It is my prayer that God would use this small effort to aid in someone's journey of learning to pray, especially my descendants.