prayer: Wrestling with God in Prayer and Meditation

So many of us learned about prayer as children, but years later, are we even really praying at all? True prayer is never lukewarm, ritualistic, flippant, or fatalistic. What we're talking about here is earnest, fervent, heartfelt, intense, deep, groaning prayer-prayer that "wrestles" with God, that seeks after His blessing, and does not give up until an answer is given. Does this describe your prayers and the meditations of your heart? Or do you struggle with cold emotions, drifting thought...