One of the enduring images in Christian culture is the praying hypocrite--the slave trader who reads the Bible in the hull of the ship; the preacher whose prayers bring him wealth; the convicted criminal who suddenly embraces religion. But don't we all have a bit of the hypocrite or con artist in us? Don't we all sometimes overlook our faults as we pray with the seemingly uninformed heart of a child? Prayer doesn't fail us; we fail prayer.