Unanswered prayer.
Sometimes we pray out of duty.
Or from a sense of conformity with the divine will.
Bereft of any human indicators or concrete signs of our prayer being answered, we continue to plead with heaven.
Years go by.
Many years.
Hope wanes and the soul unwillingly prepares for the crushing of resignation to the fact that the prayer may never be answered.
Our lips recite the prayers out of a naked faith in the promises of God's mercy.
Yet we feel nothing, see nothing, and experience nothing but the aloofness of silence.
In the silence our doubts speak.
The doubts make a lot of sense and their voice is persuasive.
How long, O Lord? Wilt Thou forget me unto the end?
Yet we pray on.
Surely God is listening and even in His silence He is working in our hearts and in the world.
This is the God that raises the dead and makes the blind to see.
This is the God Who lavishes graces upon undeserving sinners.
This is the God we must continue to seek and petition.
Remember our weaknesses, O Lord, that we are dust.
For without Thee, we are nothing and can do nothing.
Originally posted 23 October 2018
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