The stumbling blocks of "faith" and "prayer"

[Steppingfeet]

My prayers consist of things like "please help me radiate the Creator to others today" and "please allow me to witness the highest good for all" and "thank you for being there for me". I don't usually ask for little piddly manifestations from prayer, but I believe there is great power to be utilized when we invoke the help of our friends, especially if we are in any sort of crisis, physical or emotional.

I think that's exactly it!

I see prayer as a form of tuning.

And, if done in a manner similar to the one you describe above, as a means of turning the attention away from the small self and all its problems, toward the world of spirit. Correspondingly enlargening the perspective, and opening the self to receive the gifts, as it were, of spirit, among which include grace, serenity, acceptance, and the open space to transform the anguish into joyful recognition into an experience of the One.

It all depends on the "intentions and objects of the one who prays":

49.8 Ra: . . . the faculty of will called praying is also of a potentially helpful nature. Whether it is indeed an helpful activity depends quite totally upon the intentions and objects of the one who prays.

Great posts, Jade & co!