Prayer all too often can be a means of asking God as we understand God for a solution to a problem.

Unfortunately, this presupposes that whatever we consider to be a problem is a problem. And that in turn presupposes that we have such an excellent grasp of the world we inhabit that we are able to determine when something actually is a problem.

The ongoing practice of the last three Steps causes us to see that the way we are inclined to see the world is not necessarily the way the world actually is. As we practice constant self-awareness, as we meditate, and as we attempt to practice the principles of Program in all our affairs, so our perception of the world begins -- and continues -- to change. Eventually we come to see that the so-called "world" of whose permanence we used to be so sure is merely a constantly shifting mass of experiences out of which we -- because of our fear -- attempt to make sense.

If we cannot see the world as it really is, or if -- as some of us suspect -- we have created the world by which we surround ourselves, then the problems we think we encounter can have no solutions simply because those problems don't exist to begin with.

In such a situation, what is there to pray for -- other than the knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out?