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Introduction -- When you're ill -- When words fail -- Healing images -- Prayer partnering -- Psalm-as-prayer -- Suggested prayers -- When you're facing emotional problems -- Using repetition -- Centering prayer -- Imaging God -- Psalm-as-prayer -- Suggested prayers -- When you're a caregiver -- The wounded servant -- The hurting healer -- Respite -- Psalm-as-prayer -- Suggested prayers -- When you're mourning -- Many paths -- Waiting -- Active prayer -- Psalm-as-prayer -- Suggested prayers -- When you're troubled by doubts -- Identifying the source -- Letting go -- Following thomas -- Psalm-as-prayer -- Suggested prayers -- When you're angry and fearful -- Prayer for clarity -- God is big enough -- Prayer for relief -- Psalm-as-prayer -- Suggested prayers -- When dangers threaten -- Praying for leaders -- Under God : praying for the peace of unity -- Doing what can be done -- Psalm-as-prayer -- Suggested prayers -- When you feel that you've failed -- Human nature -- Prayer for self-forgiveness -- God's new start -- Psalm as prayer -- Suggested prayers -- When you need to trust -- Waiting on the Lord -- I will give you rest? -- Living prayer -- Psalm-as-prayer -- Suggested prayers.