"You pray in your distress and need; would that you would also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."

– Kahil Gibran, The Prophet

We  pray when we will, but so often the will to pray is dependent upon desperation. That is not a bad thing if our desperation is one of constant longing for connection with the God who first thought of us and formed us. that sort of desperation is what Solomon alluded to when he said, "He hath set eternity in our hearts."

That is not, however, often the case. Ours is a desperation for temporal things and an avoidance of the negative consequences of emergencies.

Neither are emergencies all bad if growth is what emerges.

When prayer is so oriented, we beging to pray out of joy and abundance.