As Jesus continued the “Sermon on the Mount,” He challenged people to go the extra mile. Love family, friends—and enemies. Pray and do good deeds—without drawing attention. Puzzling advice to “be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect” means treating everyone as lovingly and mercifully as possible (although God does it better!). In Saint Paul’s second Letter to the Corinthians, he realized that he sounded insane as he listed the imprisonments, beatings, shipwrecks, sleepless nights, and deprivations he had endured. When we pray, do we get unnecessarily specific with God, or do we ask for what we need to make headway toward eternal life for ourselves and people around us?