The book is built on her personal reflections of prayer and on a published article in the Journal of American Theology and Philosophy on the dynamics of prayer in a process paradigm.
Prayer changes the way the world is and therefore changes what the world can be.
Prayer opens the world to its own transformation. Access to God is through the deepest recesses of our selves. If God is interdependent with the world then prayer is the stage where the creative dance between God and the world takes place. The traditional view of God as the omnipotent, omniscient, ruler of the kingdom hardly allows for a God who actually listens and answers the prayers of all His subjects. It is not surprising that we would doubt that we have a direct line of communication to the power that creates the entire universe.