whispered prayers.

I recently watched a movie called the Tree of Life.  While I wouldn't necessarily recommend the movie, it got me thinking.  Throughout the film, you hear voiceovers of a little boy's prayers.  Some are spoken, but some, the most intimate, the most daring things are merely whispered.  He asks hard questions and tells the honest truth in those whispers.  Things like "why do you let Daddy beat me?" and "why did you let my brother die?"

Questions like these are dangerous ones.  Not because there are no answers, but because if we really got the answers, we probably wouldn't like what we hear.  We ask these hard questions sometimes with timidity - a sort of hesitancy that could be attributed to a wariness of the real answers.  Truth is hard to swallow sometimes.

It makes me more conscious of my "whispered prayers."  What are the things that I ask and think, but don't verbalize for fear of the response?  Man, if I trust the God who put the earth into motion, should I not trust him for answers to my little fears, my lingering doubts, and even my deepest, heart questions?

Let us develop the courage to even say those whispered prayers, and then let them become spoken ones, as we learn to trust more and more in the One who gives us more love and security than we could ever need.