Step Eleven of the AA program of recovery is...
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.
This step says that we are to seek something. We are to seek to improve on our conscious contact with God, and we do that through prayer and meditation. The big kicker in there is that we are not to pray for selfish things - only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
Of course, one cannot improve on something that does not exist. We have to have already established contact with God before we can improve on that relationship. Prayer and meditation - as opposed to the old stinking thinking alcoholics are used to. That is an improvement all by itself.
