"Pray for me"

Can we take a moment to examine this phrase? I find that I have different, opposing feelings on it.

First let's look at the positive, since the positive is always a good thing, right? I fully believe with all of my heart that if you get a group of people together and focus their attention on a particular outcome of some sort, mountains can be moved. I believe this not because I believe God can hear a big group of people and therefore she grants those particular wishes, no. I believe that it happens because Thoughts Become Things and the first step in manifesting anything at all is to be clear about what you are manifesting. That's positive, right?
But, usually there is another person involved. Let's say that someone makes a prayer request. Let's say that CONSCIOUSLY they are hoping for a good outcome for themselves, maybe something like "Please pray that I get the job I applied for". The problem with this is that there are SO many other people involved, not to mention that we all have a higher purpose that we aren't consciously aware of- if we were, there would be NO POINT in being here at all. There's something here we've come to experience, and while we are at choice in the matter, if we remembered EVERYTHING, coming here would be pointless. Then we have the people who are to hire us- they all have their own agendas to fulfill, and to pray for such a thing would prove almost impossible.....we can't affect other people's will. Trust me, I've tried. *eyeroll* It would make much more sense to ask for positive thoughts in that we can deal with whatever the outcome is, if we think that we won't be able to.
What about prayer requests for something like a disease? I happen to believe that if the person who is asking for the prayer request is very specific and it's in order with their higher purpose, healing can occur. How many miracles have there been? "The cancer is gone! Incredible!" How many times has that "miracle" not occurred in that way? How many "miracles" have been "missed" because we wish to see one thing so we miss the other?
If I ever am diagnosed with something "unwanted" and serious, I think I would assume that it's up to me how to handle it, deal with it. It's up to me to show the world grace in the face of fire. If i "win" or "lose", I still win.
But that's me.
Plus, if something happened to one of my precious children, I'd be more likely to beg for prayers/positive thoughts. But I still don't think I'd feel "abandoned" if the outcome wasn't what I would have preferred.
So what's the point in asking for prayers?
I guess they feel hopeful for some people who believe they are seperate from Life, huh? Or maybe I'm focusing too much on the actual words. Prayers are the same thing as sending love, and it's ALWAYS a good thing to send someone loving thoughts. Here, i'll do it for you right now. Whether you felt it or not, they are there, hovering around you.
Anyway, my sister has a thing, and she asked for prayers regarding it. I'm not sure what I'm actually praying for though. If it's "something", it's "something" and I don't think we are going to make it disappear- does that contradict what I just said? Is that my limiting belief that stops me from manifesting DDF right in front of my eyes?
Hm.
Well I am sending her as much love and positive light as I can.
On another note, do men feel the biological urge to have children like women do? Not the SEX part, we all know they feel that, but without having a uterus, do they feel the urge to FEEL SOMETHING INSIDE? How would they, without the uterus? I know not all women feel it, but many more do than don't. And it's a very real life force that tugs. NO, I'm not having it. I'm not only minus a uterus, but I have expressed my creativity in the way of growing children enough times and feel fulfilled. Not to mention that I have 2 babies here to take care of. Do men feel that? Or could they just as well do without? I know that men feel amazed by their children, and I'm certain they feel protective and in awe of them, but do they feel it the way women do? I'll never know, being a woman. I do know there is no feelings as strong as the feeling I have in regards to them. Nothing can break it, nothing can diminish it, and there is nothing in the world that will ever compare to what growing them and birthing them was like. There is not a sight to be seen, a land to be walked, music to be absorbed that can compare. Not skydiving, not meditating, not enjoying the most delicious meal ever. Not the softest kitten, the gentlest breeze, the greenest grass. Nothing compares. It just seems to me that men can take it or leave it (in general, as always), whereas we feel the pulls and are changed for the better (again, in general) in a way that can not be reproduced.
*dreamy sigh*
It's good to be a woman. Even better to be a mother. Can't touch this (insert Hammer music here)!