  And so we pray easy prayers and mistake them for mature prayers - “God, if it’s your will, please heal so and so.
God, if it’s your will, please give me a wife or a husband or a friend. God please change my heart.” The problem isn’t that we want too much - the problem is that we want too little and too weakly. The truth is, we suspect, deep down inside, that God really couldn’t care less. And we’d rather not face that suspicion, or the disappointment of hoping and not having an answer, so we insulate ourselves with weak desire, small hopes - easy prayers. -Bob Hyatt http://www.theooze.com/articles/article.cfm?id=790 
