When we fail to persist in prayer, the hard only gets harder
I could not get to the shower quick enough—but I hardly had it in me to scale the stairs. It had been one of those days at work. Instead of washing away stress, the cascade eroded all pretense. And I buckled into the wall. “I can’t do this, God. It’s too much,” I gushed. Tears spilled, mingling with the warm water streaming down my chin, as I leaned more into God than those cool tiles. I was convinced I had reached a breaking point. And feared I would get swallowed up in it i