"He only wished he'd had the chance to explain more fully how prayer worked. That it wasn't a matter of asking for things and being accepted or rejected, it was a matter of adding one's energy - insignificant in itself - to the vastly greater energy that was God's love. In fact, it was an affirmation of being part of God, and aspect of His spirit temporarily housed inside a body. A miracle similar, in principle, to the one that had given Jesus human form."
"Dear God, please don't let Lover Five die.
It was such an infantile prayer, the sort of prayer a five-year-old might pray.
But maybe those were the best kind."
from The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
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