My favorite way to feel close to God has always been by writing down things I am learning about Him as well as areas I am growing or struggling. I haven't written in right at a year, which is an honest insight to where my faith has been over the last year. To be honest, I have spent the better part of last year dealing with some anger towards God. There were so many nights of begging God to answer me and not understanding why it felt like He was not helping me out in the slightest. I prayed for Him to show me how to handle situations and for clarity on the direction that my life was going. I wanted an audible "yes this is correct", but instead I misunderstood His "no" and confused it for silence. Truthfully looking back at myself this time last year, the best example I can give is someone angrily throwing tools across the room because they can't figure out how to build the piece of furniture... with the instructions sitting unread and ignored next to ...
Amanda Arnold