of prayer there are fourteen minutes of distraction. During such times, please remember that God is not busy or off traveling or taking a snooze. His love is changeless and constant. His purpose for you is still on course. True, there may be times when He leads you through a stretch of dry wasteland, when His joys aren’t as evident, but remember that even the Israelites who wandered in the desert for forty years were—the whole time—actually only a few days’ journey from the Promised Land. Take the