So I say to you, keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
-Jesus, the Gospel of St. Mark 11.9-11 (HCSB)

The hard part is not to ask, search, or knock. Anyone can and does do that. The hard part is to keep asking, searching, and knocking—in the midst of a world that ridicules your faith, in the midst of times that seemingly cannot get more desperate, or in the midst of a deafening quiet when it appears God will be silent for ever.

“Keep asking…keep searching…keep knocking.”