As any good parent, our Heavenly Father knows what we need, He simply likes for us to ask.
To ask is indeed the beginning of getting the answer, and, frankly, when one is confused, only prayer can work through. Nothing can give answers like prayer when it comes to seeking the right spiritual footing at a time we feel we are thinking horrible things and we do not want to be that person. To become the better person without a role model to imitate other than through prayer and the activity of the Holy Spirit within is the miracle.
The sensation is that nothing then becomes of any great challenge because past and future confusions are handled by the comfort that we are in the best of schools in which to learn and to paint a real life.
Sheesh, I wish it were that easy.
Asking creates an awareness of our dependency on Him and what He does for us, instead of us just developing an entitlement mentality and then whining when we don’t get what we want.