subversion

I've been reading through Phillip Yancey's book called Prayer, and it has been a wonderful driving force for some new habits. This morning I read that prayer is subversive. I think Yancey is an Open-Theist, and on some levels i can dig that, but the great thing is how he actually believes prayer changes things. What a great concept of God....as if it were new....that God wishes to have a loving, human-like relationship with his created. Back to "prayer is subversive". In Brueggemann's book Prophetic Imagination, he talks about how our current reality is nothing like the reality of Kingdom of Heaven that Jesus preached; that the Kingdom reality is set out and against the current reality, which is plagued by oppression. If prayer is subversive, then it would be an prophetic act crying out from the current reality, urging God to intervene and further the Kingdom of Heaven (like the Lord's Prayer / your kingdom come. your will be done. on earth like it is in heaven).