In 1982 during my ordeal after the accident on the sets of 'Coolie', my father was kept away from any details. I was shooting in Bangalore (Bengaluru) and he was under the impression that all was well with me. When I was brought to Mumbai in a semi conscious state and taken straight to Breach Candy Hospital without being brought home, he realized that there was something seriously wrong. The morning papers for the first time carried the news of my condition and came to know then.
I am told and he describes it in his autobiography too, that his first reaction was to reach out to the Ramayan that lay by his bedside.
And he says it was not reaching out to the divinity to seek a cure for me, but to seek the strength to face the ordeal that he was going to confront.

It would be selfish of us and too demanding to continuously seek from HIM to do things for us."Take me out of this problem", 'make me successful in my venture', 'cure my loved one from suffering', sound materialistic almost.
But to seek the strength to 'face the problem', the strength to 'struggle for my success', to have the strength to bear the pain and to assist in the 'cure for the loved one' has greater bearing.
Magic may or may not happen. But the strength to believe that you can make it happen, puts one on a higher pedestal.

I need the strength now to manage to face to overcome. I seek no magic. I must work for the magic to happen. HE should be my partner, my moral support. HIS presence should be there always and that is what we pray for, but the work needs to be done. And we must do it. Ourselves.

I have dithered in putting down my responses to you all these days. But what you have done is nothing less than HIS support and strength. You have become my partner.
The strength of my spirits lies in the presence of your partnership.
When you breathe - I breathe deeper
When you speak - I speak louder
When you move - I move faster

My debt increases. But it is the one debt that I wish never leaves

Amitabh Bachchan