Prayer Quote of the Day #5

"Prayer is not something we think up to get God's attention or enlist his favor. Prayer is answering speech. The first word is God's word. Prayer is a human word and is never the first word, never the primary word, never the initiating and shaping word simply because we are never first; never primary…the first word everywhere and always is God's word to us, not ours to him." Eugene Peterson - Working the Angles