God may not be the name always given to that unseen listener, but he is nevertheless the one who hears. In Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home, Richard Foster describes the malleability of prayer: “Countless people, you see, pray far more than they know. Often they have such a ‘stained-glass’ image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are experiencing as prayer.”2 Movies offer these sorts of unconscious prayerful gestures, only much louder and on a giant screen. If it helps, imagine stained-glass windows along the walls of a theater.
