Here’s a sobering thought...

What if the entire outcome of our lives is based on prayer?

Not just the idea that it would be a good idea to cover ourselves by praying, but that praying is the central key element for a successful life?

What if prayer is more important than having intense desire, expending herculean efforts, planning with extreme detail and precision, or fostering and developing the right connections?

What if there is no such thing as luck? — but that what appears to the outside viewer as a lucky break is the working of an invisible hand?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not discounting any of these other important activities that take up so much of our time and energy.

But what if they are much less important than we and others believe, compared with something so hazy or unmanageable as prayer?