Then the way we often pray
came into my mind and how, through lack of knowing and understanding of the ways
of love, we pester him with petitions.
Then I saw truly that it
gives more praise to God and more delight if we pray
steadfast in love, trusting his goodness, clinging to him by grace, than if we ask for everything our thoughts
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