Ping
Emo Phillips had a great line:
When I was 12, I wanted a bicycle. So I prayed for a bike. I prayed for days and nothing happened. So I asked our Priest why my prayers weren’t answered. He said that the Lord works in mysterious ways.
He left me to enter the confessional with its long line of people waiting — and then it hit me. I went out and stole a bicycle and then asked God to forgive me
They are Commandments, not suggestions.