I committed to spend a certain amount of time in prayer during the month of April.  I entered this with high expectations - and still have them. After all, this is just day 5 of 30 days.  But I imagined a more steady journey.  One day prayer was intense, hard work.  Not that praying was hard - but it became an emotionally and spiritually exhausting time.  The following day God took me into the Psalms and into an extended time of rest and peaceful prayer.  The burdens of the previous day were there, but God provided a needed relief.  This has been followed with a day of distractions and a day of wondering if God is hearing me.  It seemed that God was silent.  When God is silent I become very restless and begin to question if I'm even on the right track.  My mind raced first to Psalm 8.  Sitting in the field behind my house, the moon was shining and I recalled that God put that moon in the sky along with the stars and planets...and He has time for me.  Then I was reminded of Psalm 46:10.  "Be still and know that i am God."  I'm reminded once again that when God is silent that is the time for me to be still and know He is in control, He hasn't forgotten me, and that He is God.