God created us not to make us map-reading, rote followers, but to be communicating, cooperating “friends” (John 15:15). I confess I used to love phrases such as “Prayer is the key that unlocks the storehouses of God’s riches.” I was hungry for those riches and imagined I could use prayer as a technique to get them. I somehow missed the point that the riches are God’s own self, not the advantages I want God to provide. Turn-of-the-century writer Evelyn Underhill pinpointed the