Pray

I’m not sure I pray – enough.

Not enough
     as in long enough
        or often enough.
Although I’m sure both of those are true.

But thoroughly enough.

I’m not sure I always pray through
             the possibility of what God may want
                                                         or do
             with whatever He has placed in my life –
                      no matter how much I may hate whatever it is.

Because whatever it is, is so bad
     that no one should ever have to live it
                                                endure it
                                                exist in it.
     And I would never wish whatever it is on another person.

Anyone else who doesn’t have some horrible malice or vendetta against someone would come to the same conclusion about my circumstance. Right?

So why wouldn’t He think that too?
Or bother to remove it from my life?
     Because I know He can.

Am I doing something wrong?
What if I prayed for something different?

I can what-if that scenario to a bloody mess
     and never have any actual answers.

What do I know is
                     He is God.
                     And I am not.

I’m not praying for something bad
                                         wrong
                                         immoral.

But – maybe – there is something He knows
                                                     that I don’t.

And maybe I should be praying
                                       differently.

What would
         could
         might happen next time
              if I think past my prayer
                        that isn’t necessarily wrong, but incomplete?
              If I think past my immediate distress
                                      or gigantic in-my-face circumstances
                                      or admittedly sometimes selfish needs
                                                 and pray more thoroughly?

Would my tiny change in prayer
     really make that big of a difference?
Would it fix things
                  circumstances
                  outcomes?

I don’t know.

But maybe it would make a difference in how I view
                                                                  see
                                                                  perceive things.

And that might make a difference
                                in how I perceive Him.