For those of you who used to pray, help me out here. There was just a shooting at a church outside Reno, NV and one of the clergy said, "You hear about these things and you don't expect it where you live and you pray it won't happen." Well it happened. Does that not mean that the prayers don't work? Do the people who say they "prayed" it wouldn't happen there just ignore it? What does the "praying person" do in this situation? Chalk it up to man's free will, the typical retreat? If so, doesn't that still show that prayer doesn't work? Help me understand the process when you prayed that something wouldnt happen and then it does. God's plan b.s? If, so then you pray hoping it's in the plan and if it happens anyway too bad?