Incorrect Prayer

During a particularly emotionally difficult time in my life, as a Christian, I prayed. I turned to my Lord to help me though the difficult times. I prayed for my life to be changed, for my circumstance to change. I prayed for the one that had cause my life to be disrupted to change my life once more for the better.

How I now see the errors of my prayers. I asked all the wrong questions, for the incorrect help. I prayed for someone to change my life for the better. An external person, an impartial person to change my life. Foolish me. Why did I not pray for me to change my own life? To become better myself? Why do I feel like I need someone to come into my life and change it for me? Perhaps I should pray instead for my own inner strength to change my life? For my own abilities to shine and become amazing, and in so doing change my life?

I prayed for a sign to help me through the issue, and when the sign came, I did not see it. I ignored the message. I should have perhaps asked for the wisdom and strength to accept the sign and act accordingly. My questions have always been answered, in the exact way that I need them to be answered. I did not always get the answer I wanted, but Lord knows I always got the answer I needed. Whether I knew it then or not. I needed every answer, even if I would fight against it, I needed it. I should have prayed to understand and accept the answers instead hey? Retrospect. I hate it so much (*GRIN*)

Fellow religious readers, advice from someone who has noticed his mistake. Pray. Pray often. Pray truthfully. Pray sincerely. Most of all, and I mean most of all - Pray correctly.

The Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity 

to accept the things I cannot change; 

courage to change the things I can;

and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time; 

Enjoying one moment at a time; 

Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; 

Taking, as He did, this sinful world

as it is, not as I would have it; 

Trusting that He will make all things right

if I surrender to His Will;

That I may be reasonably happy in this life 

and supremely happy with Him

Forever in the next.

Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

Be good. Be strong. Amen.
Ray