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How prayer helps Me and God Make Wise Decisions

I will begin to pray with new insight after reading about the act of praying. I've come to realize a few things about myself and maybe why I have not prayed so much in the past. After some new insight, I now figure that just like I get the attention of a loved one before I say something to them, I also should do so when I talk to God. I should not expect God to always be ready to receive or help me. Currently, this is a common courtesy I extend to people in all the rest of my earthly dealings. Why should I not extend this seed of love to the one I love most of all?

I don't ever forget that God is all knowing. I however, am guilty of not loving God as I do my loved ones here in human form. It may not be necessary to pray in order for God to know my love for Him.. Sometimes, however , I never quite understood, that maybe, just maybe, God wants me to love Him as I would my own father here on earth. Love, I forget is universal. Again, I may be guilty of something. Not guilty as in breaking a law of God but rather as 'of wrongly trying to grow something' like love. What I mean by this is that 'One would plant a seed first, to grow a plant and I can look at prayer in that same way.

Maybe God only needs me to pray once for love to take root. Maybe it's me that needs to pray more than once. It seems that maybe humans are the crop and God plants zillions of seeds or maybe I might say a multitude of seeds. Prayer could be looked at as a way for God to help us with our life decisions. My decisions may run their course and have a beginning and an end. However, maybe that of God does not have a beginning or an end. So, I may find a need to pray many times to God if I have a lot of tough choices to make in my life.

Love being universal, however small or large, always fits somewhere. As for that beyond what I can comprehend, God knows. I don't know if anything else knows something I can not comprehend or whether or not someone or something knows all that I can not comprehend. I know my own consciousness. What else can I know? I am afraid to reveal parts of my own consciousness with others. I do not know of good and evil. I do not know how bad evil can get. I do not know how good things can get. I do not quite understand the boundaries of love. I don't know the things that I do not know. I do not know the multitude of that I do or do not know. However, I have felt love, lust, brotherhood, son-man-ship, joy, endurance, and countless other emotions. Maybe I have felt hate. I don't know if feelings can be wrong or right. These are just some things God knows.

So I pray, lord, help and guide my life when I am in need. I trust your guidance and I will ask you for help when my life decisions are too hard or complex for me to handle. Amen.

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