It really isn’t that hard for me to talk about prayer. It’s incredibly hard for me to sustain prayer in a way that is free and conversational.

Everyone wants to be cared for. It is innate. We were created for caring and being cared for. So it is only right when care is lacking to feel alone and maybe even unwanted.

What is so amazing about this period of suffering, is that my wife and I would both say that God worked on us in incredible ways and strengthened our faith in Him and our love for one another. God was incredibly good to us in the midst of it.

“The opposite of a childlike spirit is a cynical spirit. Cynicism is, increasingly, the dominant spirit of our age. Personally, it is my greatest struggle in prayer. If I get an answer to prayer, sometimes I’ll think, It would have happened anyway. Other times I’ll try to pray but wonder if it makes any difference. – Paul Miller, A Praying Life