A prayer for faith, even amid questions

Master of the World, I want to truly believe in You. There are questions in me. There are things in the world I do not understand, suffering I cannot explain, prayers that were not answered as I asked. And sometimes these questions stand between me and You like a wall.

I do not want to pretend that I have no questions, and I do not want them to run me either. Give me a faith that does not depend on my understanding everything. Like a child holding his father's hand on a crowded street, even when he does not know where they are going.

Let me see You within everyday life, and not only in special moments: in the livelihood that arrives, in the body that works, in the people who are sent to me at the right time. And let me feel that I am speaking to One who hears, and not into empty space.

And let me learn and ask without fear. I do not want a faith that runs from every question, but a faith that can hold the question in its hand and go on trusting. Let me find people and sources that help me think, and do not only silence me.

Strengthen in me the faith that even what is hard for me is not chance, and that You are with me in it too. And if a question comes that I have no answer for, let me keep walking with You inside it.

And give me a joyful faith, not a heavy and frightened one. A faith that lets me breathe, live, speak with You as with a close father, and know that even without understanding everything, I am not alone.