Is there anything to be done about it, some one thing that will keep us at what we set out to do and were set apart to do? If we polled our pastor colleagues, as someone every now and then does, we would get a variety of responses. One response—which would be in predictably short supply, though—would be “prayer.” I don’t mean that the poll would show that pastors do not pray, but rather that they don’t view prayer as the central and essential act that keeps pastoral work true to itself, centered