For most of us to change, there’s a need for what we’ve been doing so far to fail. If our present methods of dealing with our issues succeed, there’s a little motivation for trying another way. When we pray for others to change, the result is often a worsening of their conditions toward failure of their present means.
This is one way of interpreting the expression “be careful what you wish for”. Observing someone we love hitting bottom brings up our own sense of futility, helplessness, and hopelessness. As we learn to love and detach from the outcome of our loving, we may accept others as they flail and fail in confidence that the way to recovery often requires such. Withstanding those uncomfortable feelings, we embody faith in the Higher Self as it acts in its own timing and way through each of us.
What do you wish or pray for? Can you withstand the uncomfortable feelings that may result? Ki to Happiness wishes and prays for what Is, grateful and faithful for what may come.