A leper calls out to Jesus, "If you are willing, you can make me clean." Jesus responds, "I am willing" and then heals the man with a touch.
I believe in the miraculous power of prayer, but what about all those times we pray and pray and pray, and there is no healing. God is always at work in the world, taking that which is broken and making it whole. God's promise is that in the end all things will be made whole.
In the meantime, we are left to wonder why God answers some prayers but not others.
And we keep praying, trying to connect our will with the will of God.
Audio: Miraculous Power of Prayer Readings (Sixth Sunday After Epiphany)