Quarks and Why Do You Pray

I was reading C.S. Lewis this morning and he posed the question to himself, “Why Pray?”  I posed the same question to myself.  I pray in hopes of redeeming even a small part of my relationship to God, to hopefully allow us to become better acquainted and therefore better friends.  I pray to acknowledge that God is God and there is no other and that I am desperately in need of Him and just as desperately, it is my wish, to want Him.  I want God’s attention.  I want to bother God to the point that He will bother with my issues and me.  I want to secure God’s continued good favor to and toward me and mine.  I want God to know that I know that I cannot worship Him in any manner worthy of Him but that as the human He made me, I want to try anyway. 

And then there are things that I do not understand.  I want to pray to acknowledge that God is God, all that He reveals Himself to be so that humans can fathom Him, and that in that fact I am compelled often, and desire to more often than that, to worship Him because He alone is WORTHY.

I pray always because what is the alternative?

I pray because I believe.  My belief is often so infinitesimal that it is almost undetectable by me but I believe, since God made quarks, that He can detect my belief, what ever its weak signal.