What is the purpose of prayer?

To change God? Or to change yourself?

To advise? Or to be advised?

To affect? Or to be affected?

Who are you trying to kid?

Prayer never hurts.

The worst that can happen is that

You'll talk too much and listen too little,

In which case you'll simply

Do what you'd planned to do in the first place,

Regardless of your prayer. Nothing will change.

No harm will be done

Except for that which you would have done in the first place,

Regardless

Of your prayer.

What is the purpose of prayer?

Why aren't prayers always answered?

Perhaps because the person who should be listening

Isn't.