God's heart breaks over all these needs and crises. He wants to be our Way in the midst of these things and through these things.
He also cares about the tiny concerns, the tiny needs. He wants to teach us how to live abundantly in His joy.
Even so, the central focus of our relationship with Him, of our prayer, is meant to be God Himself. He feeds us as we open our mouths wide. Whatever He chooses to take me through, I can survive it as long as I have Him as my Core, my Rock, my True Love, my Sustenance. Even if none of my life's needs are ever met again, if I still have my Lord, I still have life, because Jesus defined life as knowing God, knowing Christ. He is the Sun my planet revolves around. My needs are by all means important, but seeing them met is not itself the life-giving relationship: I come before Him broken, having no spiritual sufficiency in myself, and He completes me. I place requests before Him that may not even turn out to be what He sees as my most important needs -- I have to just leave them with Him to sort out as He sees fit.
God is my Sun. My needs -- however vital to me, however important to Him (it's very often God Himself who shows us these needs) -- are moons. Moons are important to a planet -- they affect the tides, the rhythms, and bring moonlight.
Yet if I ever begin to think that having my needs met is the relationship, my planet (my spiritual life) will be thrown off course.
How beautiful You are, sweet life-giving Sun. You Yourself are our sustenance. You Yourself are all we need. And flowing out of this beautiful dependence, You so often choose to pour out Your mercies, meeting our deepest needs and reconstructing us in Your image, as You promised.
Praise to You, lovely radiant Christ! You are indeed Life itself, and our eternal Hope and Joy.