“Worship of God isn’t supposed to enable you to forget about God; it’s supposed to enable you to more nearly and dearly embrace God.”
Exactly! Excellent summation. That is one major purpose of prayer. To draw close to God and fellowship with Him. We pray in Jesus’ name..... Amen:)
And... it also grows one’s “spiritual muscle.” Power-steering prayer, assuming that’s a valid thing to do, doesn’t give either the “road feel” or the “driving skill” that manual prayer does. And is there supposed to be a heaven in which everybody’s hailing Mary for everything? She’s going to be one busy waitress if so. We are in a kind of embryonic stage now, preparing for being in heaven.