Prayer when the voice falls silent

Father, why is it that when we are faced with so many challenging, and even frightening things, it seems your voice falls silent. I don't believe for a second that you withdraw from us in trouble. Why would you? You're not threatened by anything, nor can your resources be exhausted. No, I believe you are an ever present hope in trouble.

Jesus you've shown us your staying power. If there is anything you came to teach us, it was the closeness of the Father to our situations. You are Immanuel, God with us, an incarnation manifesting the God of the Heavens in our reality. How could I ever think that you've left us or refuse to talk with your people?

But still there is this silence. Have I fallen deaf? Have I plugged my ears? Perhaps, in impatience, I've tuned you out to look for our own solutions. Whatever the case, Father, we need you to break though and speak -- to make yourself known. We need, more than our own solutions, to feel your closeness. Amen.