For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.' (Philip Yancey)

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'

Philip Yancey

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