This is an example of why I feel there is so much to learn from the perspectives of Orthodoxy.

The purpose of prayer is nothing other than communion of God and man. Salvation itself is the restoration of this communion. The Christian life is to be a continual growth in communion with God. Thus our life of prayer is not an occasional intercession thrown out at the universe on behalf of some matter about which we have concern---but is rather a continual relationship in which we give ourselves to God and receive God again to ourselves [source].

I think it is perhaps quite difficult to find someone who understands the mystery of prayer more than a devoted Orthodox Christian.

More posting to come once I am finished my battle with acute viral nasopharyngitis (a battle which, by the way, I am slowly winning).