there is something more important to bring to bear on a task than just our creativity and work—namely the wisdom and power of God. Prayer also is the chief means of deepening our relationship with God. I appreciate Forsyth’s analogy that “prayer is for the religious life what original research is for science—by it we get direct contact with reality.”2 Science could not go on without research, and Christianity cannot go on in a vibrant way without prayer. It is in prayer that we “taste and see that