We can’t pray that He make
our lives free of problems; this won’t happen, and it is probably just as well.
We can’t ask Him to make us and those we love immune to disease, because He
can’t do that. We can’t ask Him to weave a magic spell around us so that bad
things will only happen to other people, and never to us. People who pray for
miracles usually don’t get miracles, any more than children who pray for
bicycles, good grades, or boyfriends get them as a result of praying. But
people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace
to remember what they have left instead of what they have lost, very often find
their prayer answered. They discover that they have more strength, more courage
than they ever knew themselves to have. Where did they get it? I would like to
think that their prayers helped them find that strength. Their prayers helped
them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage which were not available to them
before.
--from When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
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