command.”4 Maybe that’s the prayer we should pray when we experience troubles without, such as a loved one’s unexpected and untimely death, a failed surgery, long-term underemployment or unemployment with all the financial pressures that follow, severe marital tension and perhaps divorce, children who break their parents’ hearts, disappointing friends, an ex-spouse who delights to hassle their former mate, or troubles within, such as temptation to do evil, wounds from abuse that neither prayer nor