Prayer is a privilege and the soul's sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and 'checklist' prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently persevere through the trial of our faith, and as we humbly acknowledge and accept 'not my will, but Thine, be done.'
This above all; to thine own self be true.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.