 A father was teaching his daughter how to pray. Each night before bed, the father would kneel alongside his daughter, demonstrating for her simple prayers. After a few nights of this, he explained, now that I've shown you how to pray, I want you to try to do this on your own. The following night, after tucking his daughter into bed, the father left the room and waited right outside the door to listen to his daughter pray. She prayed ABCDEFG and so on with the alphabet. The father quietly laughed to himself and then went to bed. This continued for several nights. She would pray the ABCs. Finally, one night, not wanting his daughter to misunderstand prayer, the father interrupted and instructed, sweetie, I love that you're trying to pray, but when you pray, you have to actually talk to God. Dad, she replied, I am talking to God. I just give him the letters and he arranges the prayer however he wants. Well, this isn't exactly how the gift of tongues works. It's similar in that we pray surrendered sounds.