A very helpful and interesting book

 In his book 'The Praying Life' Paul Miller opens with the question asked by one of his children "What good does it do?" Probably most of us have asked the same question about prayer when faced with some of the difficult issues we face in life. Paul uses lessons he has learned from his family, which includes a daughter with autism, to help us to come to God as small children to a father and to face our doubt and cynicism. He puts prayer in the context of our life story and shows God working in the long term, maybe seeing answers many years after we first sought His help. Seeing prayer in this light helps us to realise that God has many lessons to teach us as we continue to wait and trust in Him. I found this book very readable and it opened my eyes to new ways of looking at the conundrum of prayer.