 Let's just look at the idea of I'm by myself and say, okay, that's a perception. There's a line in the Bible, if God is with me, who can be against me? And you might say, if God is with me, I am never alone. But we'll say that it's a perception, so it could be a perception of feeling alone and even praying alone. I'm praying in solitude. I'm praying alone. And what I would say is that what helped me was, there was one line in the course I read one time where it said, whenever you perceive that anything is lacking in any situation, it is what you have failed to give. I was just like, oh my God, you mean I've never actually been lacking in any situation ever in my whole life, but I just had this reluctance to give. There was just something that was like, hold back. We've all had that withhold. Don't put all your eggs in one basket and always save for a raining day. We've been taught to withhold, that it's prudent to withhold. Even in relationships, don't give it all away. String them along a little bit. Make them work for it. Make them chase. And make them pursue. And who taught us this stuff? When God is a giver, why would we want to be givers? Unconditional givers. So really when we're praying, we're praying for opportunities to give. We're praying for opportunities to extend. That's why I was so happy when I got happier and happier and then I started getting all these invitations. Oh, this is wonderful. Look at all these chances to give it away. Give it away. Give it away. Give it away. There's an eagerness even with wanting to give it away. So that washes away the lack. In the song of prayer, Jesus says, you pray continuously, but when you believe you're lacking, you can't help but pray and ask for things. Most of us were raised with that. God, can you give me this or offer me this? There were supplications. That's really what the prayers were. You don't tend to hear a Buddhist with supplications. They're like, open your mind. Be still. Be receptive and open and listen. It's not all this talking. I would like a new car. Please bring me my soulmate soon. And it's all these questions. And then the east is like, what? Be still. Receive. And I think the deeper you go, it's more that you're opening to a purification, a stillness of mind where you want to have nothing on the altar except God. I want you on my altar. I want God on my altar. Nothing else. I want to empty my mind, my altar. So prayer means emptying the altar and we can't help but pray for what we believe we're lacking. That's just the way it works. Jesus is like, oh, we're fine with that, but that's just a lower rung on the ladder. You'll come up much higher. Eventually, you'll get to the top of the ladder and there'll be one prayer left in Jesus's terms. Father, what is your will for me? Whoa, that's a different kind of prayer than help me on my travels and make sure I have enough food to eat. Father, what is your will for me? That's like saying, give it to me. Give me everything. Give me my complete inheritance. Okay, I was the prodigal son, the prodigal daughter. I wandered off for a while in time and space, but I'm back and I'm asking for the whole inheritance. And then, of course, Jesus says, it's not that you ask for too much. You ask for far too little. It's like going to God with a little thimble. You know, those little thimbles that you're sowing and taking your little thimble are trembling. Did I please fill my cup? Jesus is like, is that as big a cup as you can come up with? A thimble? Get a bucket, get a towel, get a bathtub, get a hot tub, get a pool. I can fill up. My cup run is over, but you're asking, if you're asking is limited, then your prayers are limited. And that's a worthiness thing when there's a sense of the loneliness, the isolation, that comes in from a worthiness thing. Somehow there's a belief I'm not worthy of so much love, but that's what you were just addressing. You know, when you start to feel all the love swirling in your heart, you want to give it away. You just want to give it away abundantly. I had a friend that called the day. She was just saying, you're coming to Georgia. I know you're coming to Georgia. And I was just praying, praying, praying today. You know, am I really supposed to drive an hour and a half to see David when he comes to Georgia? And she said, I was just praying for a sign. And then I remember, because about like two hours before that I had my little phone and it came up and this little thing on Facebook came up, you know, to poke somebody and I poked her. And so when she was calling, I was praying for a sign. Am I supposed to see David? She said, I said, yeah, I poked you. She said, yeah, that's what I was going to say. You poke me. You never poked me. You've never poked me. This is a Facebook prom for how the Holy Spirit works. You've never, ever, ever poked me and you poked me. So now I know I'm supposed to come. So where are you going to be? I'm going to come and join you for dinner. You know, it was just a little symbol and it's involuntary. I wasn't going through there. It just went, and the Spirit did it. And then that was part of this whole encounter of just extending love over dinner just from a little Facebook poke. It just shows you there's just so many opportunities. Even the seemingly tiniest thing can make all the difference, you know, as far as extending the love.