to us, and we ask for it over and over again, but it turns out that it is actually a stone, and we would never have known that until we bit into it. in fact, i have found in life that you don’t know what you have been rescued from. you might never find out how that gift would have blown up in your face: maybe the person that you wanted to marry, or the place that you wanted to live, or the job opportunity that went to someone else, or the kids that you wanted to have.
the secret of prayer is about coming to know and trust the character 