Prayer is not like my daughter's hot glue gun, with which she tries to repair anything that gets broken - but most of what she glued together is still broken. Jesus does not promise to glue the gaping holes of change back together in our lives and make things like they used to be. It is not that Jesus never glues for you. I have, like some of you, brought brokenness to Jesus and been amazed at what a divine hot glue gun can do. I have seen relationships that Jesus has glued together.
Misery is a choice, an addictive, deadly choice, but the only choice spiritually blind ones can see.
Jesus loves miserable ones. Jesus died for them, and calls you to lead them into paths of victory. In the passage Janet read everybody was miserable except Jesus. The scribes were threatened by the miracles Jesus was performing. His family was threatened, too.