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There was a season in my life where I kept praying for the same thing.

I thought if I just kept praying, if I kept believing, God would fix it.

I believed He would change the situation.
That things would turn around.

I didn’t understand why; out of everything, why not this?

From where I stood, it made sense.
It didn’t feel wrong.
It felt good… worth fighting for.

People say in moments like that, maybe you didn’t have enough faith!

But I know what I carried.
I know how deeply I believed.

What I didn’t know then
was how much I was asking God to sustain something
that was quietly undoing me.

I couldn’t see how tightly I was holding on
to something already causing harm.

All I felt was silence.

But it wasn’t silence.

God was still working,
just not in the way I wanted or expected.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. — Isaiah 55:8

He had something better.
I couldn’t see it yet.

There are things I once cried over
that I’m now grateful didn’t happen.

That’s not easy to admit.

Because those prayers were real.
I meant every word.

But now I understand.

Some things aren’t meant to be fixed.
Some things are meant to end.
Some things are meant to change us.

Sometimes God says no
because He sees what we don’t.

We hold onto things
He’s trying to release us from.

And when the answer doesn’t come the way we hoped,
it can feel like absence, like distance,
like He isn’t there at all.

But He is.
He always is.

If you’re there right now—
still praying, still waiting, still wondering …

I understand.

I’ve been there.

And one day, with time and clarity,
you may see what once felt like silence
for what it truly was:

Not rejection.
But protection.