What to Do When You Are Too Tired to Pray
He sat on the edge of the bed at eleven at night, phone dark, room dark, and could not find a single word to say to God. He had tried. He had opened his mouth in the quiet and nothing came, not even the ordinary requests he usually reached for without…
You Do Not Have to Feel Close to God to Sit Down with Him
He sat down with his Bible open on the same page it had been open to for three mornings in a row, coffee going lukewarm beside him, and felt nothing. Not boredom exactly, and not resistance either. Just a flat, quiet absence where he had expected to feel…
When Prayer Feels Like Talking to a Wall
He knelt beside his bed the way he had every night for years, said the same familiar words, and felt nothing on the other end of them, no ease, no presence, no sense that anyone was actually listening. This had been going on for months now, without him…