all of that can feel useless when I’m in a quiet room, devoting myself to prayer and holding little more than hope that God is there. On days like that, it is not apologetics or theology that keeps me in prayer, but the yearning that lies behind all of that good work. Yearning is perhaps our truest testimony, a constant reminder to myself that even if my faith is not something I can blindly accept, neither is it something I can blithely discard.
