God is always doing all that can justly be done for each of us, given God s unsurpassable love for all creatures, and given whatever messes we creatures have produced. Because God cannot, and would not, make creatures decisions for them, God is not indictable for the evil creatures produce. Prayer from a Process Perspective Prayer is a means of enriching the everlasting communion between God and ourselves, and as such it makes a difference not only to us but to God and everything else. By making such a difference, prayer can actually open up new opportunities in the world around us, opening new ways for God to work with and through the world. As Marjorie Suchocki puts it, God works with the world as it is in order to lead it toward what it can be.
Prayer changes the way the world is, and therefore changes what can be.
But it is only in rare circumstances that prayer makes the kind of difference that would noticeably change the course of events beyond one s own immediate sphere of influence. The lengths to which some of them go in trying, for example, to figure out Whitehead s final position on a subject can look ludicrous. The temptation is understandable, because Whitehead and Hartshorne seem to have introduced a model of God and the world that has never been explored until the twentieth century. Other, more biblical sounding theologians have in fact often borrowed insights from process theology without acknowledging its influence. But process thinkers often fail to notice, or at least fail to mention, how much their own positions are influenced by Jewish and Christian traditions.