You never know who is listening to your prayers. What gods might intercept and what will they do with that slack-energy?
We definitely don't pray to J. R. "Bob" Dobbs. But we might have a little conversation with him. Something like this...
Okay, "Bob", I'm ready. I know that whatever comes next, it'll be to your benefit and I'll have avoided some other thing that was to neither of our benefit. May a crumb from your table occasionally fall into my upturned and shrieking face.
Ch-ching. :jrbd: