I can guess that you have experienced that sometimes, our prayers (and our life in God) can get confusing, dry, drab, and tiresome. We can easily forget in times that seem spiritually murky or dark that prayer and life in God is about relationship, not just getting good things done.

He sat down and began to teach his disciples. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” And each of the things that come out of His mouth, not just here in the sermon on the mount, but throughout his ministry, tell how the kingdom of God is a reversal of all that we normally think. Those who mourn are Bless-ed? Happy? Holy? Fortunate? To be envied? How does that even compute in our normal way of thinking?