I believe my Higher Power as I understand it answers my prayers even when I don't come out and ask anything.
I believe this because of events that happened last week. As I have mentioned before, I am a recovering alcoholic. I was doing real great on staying sober until January, 28th. On this day I began a week long relapse. My husband had helped someone with car troubles and was given 2 bottles of wine for his time. He brought the wine into the house and showed it to me. Being an alcoholic, I started using false rationalizations to excuse my drinking of the wine. I opened one bottle that night and gave the other bottle to my dad. On January 31st I drank a few glasses of wine mixed with soda, (I thought it would hinder the effect of the alcohol..... Yeah right) and the next day I called in to my Program and therapist because I was tired and not feeling well. On Thursday I finally told a fellow program member about my relapse. I was also given a Urinary Drug Test by my therapist. I had to come clean about my relapse and also about my taking other peoples prescription pain meds for my back pain. I was not hung over on Wednesday but my therapist heard me slurring my words on her voicemail. On Thursday I started my sobriety all over again by dumping the rest of the wine down the toilet and also by using my story of relapse as a topic for my Thursday night AA meeting.
I believe that on Wednesday, my higher power knew I wanted to be sober and as such, made my voice sound as if I was slurring my words, so that my therapist would give me the drug test and make me face up to what I was doing and get back on the right track.
On another note of this topic, I remember one of my favorite songs by Garth Brooks and it's chorus.
"Sometimes I thank God, for unanswered prayers,
Remember when you're talking to the man upstairs,
and just because he may not answer,
doesn't mean he don't care.....
One of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers."
Feel free to also think of the deity or deities that you choose to follow in the same way as God is referred to in the song.
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