Do you ever have moments where you feel God isn't listening? My friend's niece died at 17 last week because of a drunk driver. His sister, the girl's mother, has just lost her battle with brain cancer. I got denied for a job I was hoping for, very much. The depression I struggled with before has reared its ugly head yet again. Bills won't stop mounting. My parents can't make it to dinner tonight because my sister-in-law has to work late. I know it isn't her fault. But it was the icing to a particularly soul-crushing cake.

I feel tempted to think it's never going to get better. I know that's not true, though. I have been helped out of my lowest depths before. I will be helped again. But it doesn't quite feel like it just now.