Why Pray?

It's been awhile since I've posted again...this semester is just super busy.  Looking forward to being done with college.

This probably isn't going to be a long post, but I watched Mike Donehey's (lead singer of Tenth Avenue North) video journal tonight on prayer.  If you've never watched one of his videos, I'd highly recommend it.  Mike talked about how his focus in prayer shifted from praying as a means to an end to prayer as an end in itself.  The question that keeps coming to mind tonight after watching this is why do I pray?  I have to say, the answer I keep giving isn't good enough.  I want to pray to be changed.  I want to pray to spend quality time with God.  I want to pray to be with God and in His presence.  Yet I find myself praying for a multitude of other reasons.  How do I make this shift?

Brain feeling drained from school so this is all I've got for tonight, but I'll leave all of my loyal followers (ha!) with one question:  Why do you pray?