Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Today's reading titled Unanswered Prayers was written by John Blaze.

Are we there yet?

Not yet.

Are we there yet?

Not yet.

That was the back and forth game we played on the first

and definitely not the last 16-hour trip back home to Arkansas from Colorado when our children

were young. Our oldest two kept the game alive as well, and if I had a dollar for every time

they asked, well, I'd have a stack of dollars. It was a question

my children were obsessed with, but I, the driver, was equally obsessed wondering, are we there yet?

And the answer was, not yet, but soon. Truth be told, most adults are asking a variation on that

question, although we may not

voice it out loud. But we're asking it for that same reason. We're tired and our eyes have grown

weak with sorrow. We're worn out from our groaning about everything from the nightly news to

daily frustrations at work, to never-ending health problems, to

relational strains, and the list goes on. We cry out, are we there yet? How long, Lord,

how long? The psalmist knew well that kind of weariness, and he honestly brought that key question

to God.

Like a caring parent, he heard David's cries and, in his great mercy, accepted them.

There was no shame for asking.

Likewise, you and I can boldly approach our Father in Heaven with our honest cries of

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