Ref;ection Starter from Henry Ward Beecher

"If you ask, 'What is the use of praying?' I answer, 'Woe is me if I do not pray!' I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent somewhere. I pray because it is easier to pray than not to pray. It is the soul that prays first: the tongue wags afterwards. It is no small privilege that we have of talking with God, and of laying our troubles upon him so as to feel relieved of them." - Henry Ward Beecher