"Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out" Sought: To resort to : go to To go in search of : look for To try to discover To ask for : request-seeks advice To try to acquire or gain If I am praying for is knowledge of God's will for me and the power to carry it out, then as a result of that action my conscious contact will naturally improve-especially because I have abandoned expectations on what that looks like, as well as any attachment to the outcome. This takes God from being Santa Claus who grants wishes and gives me stuff if I'm good, or the equal opposite extreme of vengeful and angry God sending me to hell if I messed up, to allow God to reveal itself to me that is not confined to my pre judgment, pre programming, perceptions and pre meditative motives to get or prove something. In other words; God is free from the box and...