Is it permissible for us to pray for bodily hardships to befall us?

In answering the question, “Ought we then to pray that bodily distresses do not happen to us, or if we do fall into them, how ought we to bear them?,” St. Basil the Great says, “He made no distinction as to kinds of temptation, but commanded in general terms that we ought to pray lest we enter into temptation . But if we have succumbed to it, we should ask from the Lord that he give us a way out, so that we may be able to bear it (cf. 1 Cor. 10:13), and so be able to fulfil what was said: he who endures to the end shall be saved (Matt. 10:22; 24:13).”⁸³