I have been taught to pray all my life. I have been taught that God hears and answers prayers. I have been told what an answer to prayer feels like, and because I have taken questions to God in prayer, I also have personal experience with receiving answers. I know what an answer to prayer feels like because I have experienced it first hand. I have also struggled with prayer. I don't always pray as regularly as I ought to. Sometimes I pray as fervently as I know how, truly desiring an answer, and I don't feel like I get one. Or I fervently pray, feel like I receive the answer, and then a short time later, the answer seems to change. The answers that change have been the most challenging to my faith, but I have learned a little something about those answers and about prayer, and it's something that I've learned because I stuck with it. Years ago, about the time my oldest child was three, I started investigating home schooling. I had been introduced to the conc