" Don’t try to get the prayer right; just tell God where you are and what’s on your mind. That’s what little children do. They come as they are, runny noses and all. Like the disciples, they just say what is on their minds. We know that to become a Christian we shouldn’t try to fix ourselves up, but when it comes to praying we completely forget that. We’ll sing the old gospel hymn “Just as I Am,” but when it comes to praying, we don’t come just as we are. We try, like adults, to fix ourselves up. "

― Paul E. Miller , A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World