We should pray even if we are not getting anything out of it. Imagine that you are rooming with someone and he or she virtually doesn’t speak to you. All she does is leave messages. When you mention it, she says, “Well, I don’t get much out of talking to you. I find it boring and my mind flitting everywhere, so I just don’t try.” What will you conclude? Regardless of how scintillating a conversationalist you are, it’s rude for her not to talk to you. She owes it to her suite mate to at least interact face-to-face. Of course rudeness is far too weak a word to use for a failure to directly
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