In a Newsweek cover story entitled, "Talking to God", a Gallup poll reported that 91% of women and 85% of men say they pray regularly. That includes 94% of blacks and 87% of whites; 57% of Americans say they pray at least once every day.1

This survey went on to say that 32% of the people who pray, report that praying gives them a deep sense of peace; 26% said they sense the actual presence of God in their prayers.2 All of that sounded encouraging until I read this final statistic: Only 15% regularly receive definite answers to their prayers.

Now that tells me something. A lot of people are praying, but very few people are connecting. I am reminded of a story about a children's Sunday School class, who adopted as a project to write letters to foreign missionaries.

The teacher told them t…