Thoughts on Prayer

A while back, I came across some interesting thoughts on prayer in Barbara Brown Taylor's book, An Altar in the World.

She mentions how personal each person's experience of prayer is: ... divine response to prayer is one of those beauties that remain in the eye of the beholder. What sounds like an answer to one person sounds like silence to another... The meaning we give to what happens in our lives is our final, inviolable freedom. Only you can say whether God answered you... Are you still waiting for God to answer you, or is your life the answer you have been seeking, hiding in plain view?