Have you ever prayed and felt as if your prayers weren’t answered? Did you fall on your knees, clasped your hands, prayed to God earnestly, with all your heart, perhaps also with tears and sighs and felt as if God simply didn’t hear you? Have you ever felt like you were just talking to yourself when you were praying—that God wasn’t paying attention? A lot of people think God doesn’t answer prayer because things don’t go their way. Pope Francis says, ‘We pray, we ask, and yet sometimes our prayers seem to go unheard: what we have asked for, for ourselves or for others, is not fulfilled… We think, for example, of the heartfelt prayers we offer for our sick children, or for our friends who experience great pain. In our disappointment, we may feel that God is deaf to our pleas; we may even be tempted to stop praying.” Perhaps what we don’t realize is that God does answer our prayers, maybe he just says ‘No’, or ‘Wait’, or that he would show a better way, but we were not paying attention. Let us not lose heart. God does not forget us, He listens to us, He hears our cry, He understands us. He is interested in us. He loves us and cares for us; if it were not so, why should He have created us?
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