You can Pray on it, I'm gonna be prepared to handle it

Countless times I've heard the saying "you just need to pray on it". Whenever I hear it, it sounds a lot like don't do anything and hope something good happens. Now I understand that there are things you cant control, like illness and weather and things like that but even during those times sitting around an "praying on it" seems like a failed strategy. Being prepared for things you cant control is better than leaving things up to chance. I'm no atheist, I definitely believe there is a God and he's running the show. But I also think God has a strictly hands off policy when it comes to interfering. Often times there are things that could have been done prior to that event. You lost your job "pray on it" or you could have been saving money to hold you over until you could find a new one. People don't expect bad things to happen to them which is why when they do happen it hits so damn hard. I don't think prayer is a bad thing but how many times have you had someone come up to begging on the street and you've thought to yourself "get job. I work hard for what I have" or "I don't have time for this", in your head you begin to question why they are where they are and what could they have done to prevent their current situation. You may still give them something and that's great, but why weren't they prepared for whatever happened to them. Well they're praying for you to fix their situation like so many of us pray to god to fix our own. How about we stop asking God for those good handouts and we better prepare ourselves for the good or the bad the bad that may come. Holla

Hutch