Do you ask God for help sometimes

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I mean when you must do something but you don't have inspiration, for example you must write essay, scientific publication to school or College.

I don't.
The irony of somebody asking a figment of cultural imagination to help them write a scientific article is too much dafuq for my brain to cope with.

Not since I was young. The last time I did was when I was in terrible pain and I didn't really expect anything to happen. I was just desperate and out of my mind with pain.

Not since I found out he doesnt exist!

Here's the lyrics to a song I wrote in 1994 called PRAYER
(lyrics & music by Chris Watson, Copyright ©1994)

God almighty, are you real or am I talking to myself
when I tell you how I feel, and I ask you for your help?
Seems I never get an answer, nothing I can recognize,
and I wonder who I'm seeing when I look into my eyes…

Lord, I pray you give me power to resist the things I must:
Envy, Anger, Greed and Gluttony, Pride and Laziness and Lust.
So I pray to my Creator for some small degree of trust
in a faithful guiding Spirit on my trip from dust to dust.

Seems I'm always doing something that I know I should not do.
Looking back, I feel so stupid, but I haven't got a clue
why I do the things I shouldn't when I know they make me sad.
How can I control it? You know I feel so bad…

Lord, I pray you give me power to discern what is your will,
whether Biblical or mystical, or just a sugar pill.
So I wander through existence with a whole lifetime to kill,
and I wonder how I'll pay when I finally get the bill…

[reggae ending to infinity, that's 8 times (sideways)]

No.

I prayed for help usually to find a needy person being placed in my life for me to help.

That's very nice.. I would love to hear you playing that on something like you tube..
if you do not already have it published as such...

No, instead I ask of myself to plough forward.

I do. All too often, however, I don't even bother to listen for a reply

thanks. A minister of some church somewhere wrote me a few years ago asking for how to play it for his congregation. At that time I did not have any recording of it available. I still don't have a video of it yet but there is a mp3 recorded last year (I sing better now) linked to from this song's lyrics page on my web site (the mp3 link is after the song title near the top of the page). Originally this song was going to be one I included on my next album which would be the first to be professionally recorded. However earlier this year I replaced this song and three others from the 2011 album song list with four of my newer songs that I like better. And now that the album has been delayed another six months, since then I have come up with four newer songs that will probably displace four on the revised list (I haven't done that yet though).

When I wrote it my thoughts on spirituality were still being expressed in terms of the Christian culture I was steeped in from childhood just because of where and when I was born. Nowadays my personal spirituality leans more towards the eastern philosophies, but with a realization that the Christian message CAN be read to mean what the eastern philosophies say if you have that awareness going in as you read it. In trying to express spiritual teachings, Jesus was limited to using the terms and concepts from the language and culture of the time and place He lived. That explains a lot, at least to me, about why on the surface Christianity seems to be so very different from the teachings of eastern philosophies. I see deeper identities though.

A problem I have with fundamentalist interpretations of Christianity, the young earth creationists in particular, is that since I KNOW they are wrong about something like evolution that has so much evidence clearly showing they are wrong, how can I possibly trust their opinion on spiritual matters not so easily checked. It isn't a matter of interpreting the same evidence according to one's worldview either. Most of those who argue against the fact of evolution are very badly misinformed about what evidence actually exists. Creationist web sites are notorious for distortions and denials of demonstrable reality. They bring shame to Christ and Christianity by spreading so many lies.

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Yes

I enjoyed that..You create a unique vocal and guitar sound..my friend..

I also lean toward eastern philosophies..

My prayer is one of action in being..like when I dance to musicK.. free form naked in my backyard..practicing TAI CHI movements...

Also as the muslim folks do I practice being this way in energy..throughout the day..even when my wife is shopping in stores.. of what I like to describe as the Christ..that yes indeed the Historical Jesus was limited in describing by vehicle and vessel of language at that historical time and is still difficult to describe..except for languages like Urdu..which seem to capture the essence of this positive Christ energy better...

He found a way that worked for him..i think..and was simply willing to give his life to share it with others as the peace it gave him..which likely inspired hope for the human race to potentially better take this action of peace and love in life..instead of hate ..and discord..that unfortunately is the force that still binds so many people together in modern culture..rather than the love that is possible to potentially take all to greater levels of 'Christ'..love Light..and simply bliss as social primate...l

But for those that never feel..it ....it likely seems not to exist...and I do not see any guarantee of It without great passionate focus of all human energy on IT..the ChristLightandLOve..TH@IS!

And yes..science is a valuable tool for faith..hope..and Knowledge..to make better decisions in life..when one..Understands..WE AREALL connected....

One would think..that after all the research on human behavior and sexuality..that the gauntlet would be reduced on the homosexuality condemnations..and maybe that will still happen greater in the future..as more people basically get educated on the greater philosophical issues of life...

A christian acquaintance tried to tell me that in a life or death scenario I would resort to praying to god for help. He simply couldn't comprehend that I would not waste what were potentially my last living moments on talking to a figment of other peoples imagination.

Well i've faced those last minutes before..and it is never easy facing death...

You are just going to be scared....no matter how tough a person thinks they are....

Or whoever or whatever they pray to...or with....

But whatever reduces the fear is all that counts...

And yeah..if praying does that for anyone in their last few minutes...

that is all that really counts...

As every second of this life..is sacred...for those who truly appreciate the gift of life they have...

Regardless of the adversity that life can bring...

And yes prayer does really reduce anxiety for some people..

And fear is the worst enemy that most people..

face in this life...

So prayer definitely can be Kool for those who receive this

anxiety reducing benefit...

That is real..there is no doubt about that potential benefit.. of prayer...

Anxiety can make a person's life shorter...and stink..just stink....

That is a rather smug, self-satisfied statement from that person, they should be ashamed of themselves for making it. As a believer, that sort of nonsense annoys me no end.