Chrystal Hurst speaks to the pain of praying without answers through medical crises, job loss, marriage trouble, and loneliness. She argues that silence from God is not abandonment, and that moving toward Him rather than away is how faith survives the wait.
I know what it's like to pray and wait when you're waiting on the doctors to come back with a report. I know what it's like to pray and wait when you hate your job. I know what it's like to pray and wait when you are hoping that your marriage works out okay, or when you're sick of being alone and you want God to bring somebody. I know what that's like. I know what it's like to have a child who's not acting right, and you were like, what happened when I poured all this stuff into them? I know what all of that's like, but the answer is not for you to go away. To move away from the one who is the one who your help comes from. The answer is to move toward him, for you to keep coming even when he's silent.
