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Originally Posted by Drolefille
I'm going to look into the CS Lewis book, however I guess I'm still left with this thought process - many types of intercessionary prayer are simply... "doing it wrong" so to speak. But for those other types of prayer, and "correct" intercessionary prayer, if prayer is a conversation, then what is the explanation for those who receive no reply, no understanding, no feeling, no nothing?
None of the explanations I can come up with work, the only one that's passable for being utterly unprovable is that there's something 'wrong' with the person praying, but it's a shifting standard. And while absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, I'm just not any closer to finding answers.
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And this probably doesn't get you any closer -- I think there's always a response. I think "the explanation for those who receive no reply, no understanding, no feeling, no nothing" is not that's it's not there. It's that they're missing it. I wouldn't say that means there's something "wrong" with the person praying exactly. And I'd also say even the most devout saint has periods when there seems to be no response.
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/yeah this is all about me.
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And that's okay.
