I was originally writing a response to someones post about addressing fearful or anxiety provoking situations and what it means to ask the holy spirit for help in those regards, and I came back to my passion for prayer.

When I ask for help from higher power, rather than "my way" I almost always come back around to the need to see myself and the other, the subject and object, as one in need and one in prayer. The course puts it so well in this section:

This is from the Psychotherapy manual:

P-2.II.5. Different teaching aids appeal to different people. 2 Some forms of religion have nothing to do with God, and some forms of psychotherapy have nothing to do with healing. 3 Yet if pupil and teacher join in sharing one goal, God will enter into their relationship because He has been invited to come in. 4 In the same way, a union of purpose between patient and therapist restores the place of God to ascendance, first through Christ's vision and then through the memory of God Himself. 5 The process of psychotherapy is the return to sanity. 6 Teacher and pupil, therapist and patient, are all insane or they would not be here. 7 Together they can find a pathway out, for no one will find sanity alone.

P-2.II.6. If healing is an invitation to God to enter into His Kingdom, what difference does it make how the invitation is written? 2 Does the paper matter, or the ink, or the pen? 3 Or is it he who writes that gives the invitation? 4 God comes to those who would restore His world, for they have found the way to call to Him. 5 If any two are joined, He must be there. 6 It does not matter what their purpose is, but they must share it wholly to succeed. 7 It is impossible to share a goal not blessed by Christ, for what is unseen through His eyes is too fragmented to be meaningful. P-2.II.7. As true religion heals, so must true psychotherapy be religious. 2 But both have many forms, because no good teacher uses one approach to every pupil. 3 On the contrary, he listens patiently to each one, and lets him formulate his own curriculum; not the curriculum's goal, but how he can best reach the aim it sets for him. 4 Perhaps the teacher does not think of God as part of teaching. 5 Perhaps the psychotherapist does not understand that healing comes from God. 6 They can succeed where many who believe they have found God will fail. P-2.II.8. What must the teacher do to ensure learning? 2 What must the therapist do to bring healing about? 3 Only one thing; the same requirement salvation asks of everyone. 4 Each one must share one goal with someone else, and in so doing, lose all sense of separate interests. 5 Only by doing this is it possible to transcend the narrow boundaries the ego would impose upon the self. 6 Only by doing this can teacher and pupil, therapist and patient, you and I, accept Atonement and learn to give it as it was received. P-2.II.9. Communion is impossible alone. 2 No one who stands apart can receive Christ's vision. 3 It is held out to him, but he cannot hold out his hand to receive it. 4 Let him be still and recognize his brother's need is his own. 5 And let him then meet his brother's need as his and see that they are met as one, for such they are. 6 What is religion but an aid in helping him to see that this is so? 7 And what is psychotherapy except a help in just this same direction? 8 It is the goal that makes these processes the same, for they are one in purpose and must thus be one in means.