Providence & Prayer: How Does God Work in the World?

• Recipient of an Honourable Mention in the 2001 God Uses Ink Contest

"Lord, please give me a parking space!"

That prayer sounds right on your third time around the block, frustrated and late for an appointment. But is it consistent with how God works in the world?

Does prayer change God's mind or only our feelings? Does God do things because we ask him to? Or do we ask him because he prompts us to do so? How much control does God really have in the world, anyway? If he has given us free will, c...