This story doesn’t resolve the mystery of unanswered prayers. Yet, in our struggles, our times we cry out where are you O lord, it seems that Jesus understands. It appears questionable at first when he responds to our dilemma wondering aloud, that on the day that I return, will anyone remain who has faith? But he turns this upside down saying—stop waiting and start praying. Living in between the already and not yet—I am hear with you. It is in our ceaseless prayers that we hear. It is in our persistence that we see. And it is in our persistence that we find God is just. We recognize every joy, the little things, the child, the need of a neighbor, the wonder as the leaves begin to change. In praying without ceasing, we are participating to the witness that God is with us.

It is in the presence of Christ we come, it is in the presence of Christ we lay at his feet, and it is in a living faith that we come, and Jesus says “Get up and go.”