“What we really need is not some intellectually acceptable answer to life’s most mysterious conundrum about God’s action or inaction. The need is for God and the nurture of the expectation of his coming to be coupled with the patience to wait for him to come in his own time. The waiting is not easy. In his reflection on the death of his first wife, Martin Marty wrote of waiting as a time of praying what he describes as the ‘Cry of Absence’ [protesting the apparent silence of God] found so often in the Psalms.”
