Did you hear about the five-year-old boy who announced to his parents that he never wanted to pray again? When his mother probed the kid's unbelief, she got this simple explanation. “I prayed and prayed, and prayed for a new puppy dog, and all I got was a new baby brother." Well, prayer does have its problems. We ask for guidance and all we hear is silence. We get what we want and wind up not wanting what we get. Unlike Garth Brooks, we don't always find it easy to thank God for unanswered prayers. Prayer is a mystery, yet over 80% of Americans pray and over half of Americans pray every day. Even 0ne-fifth of the atheists in this country say they pray daily. Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, unuttered or expressed, and prayer is more than that. It's the “more than that" dimension of pra…