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In Quiet Struggle, God Is Near Cover
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|Apr 2026

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Some days it feels like discipline is a myth.

Not failure exactly. But fatigue.

An ache where resolve used to be.

Is this what faith looks like?

To want consistency. But sleep wins. Or silence.

Is craving rest weakness?

Or just honesty in the flesh?

Why does the spirit speak so quietly?

What if healing isn’t about fixing?

What if it's more like learning to listen again?

The skipped meals, the late nights — they tell stories.

Some days, the body just pleads to be heard.

He sees. Even when it feels like nothing’s working.

Not performance, but intention.

He looks at the turning back. Again and again.

Is that what steadiness means?

Still — He meets you there.

In the disorder, the forgetting, the doubt.

Not with scolding. With breath. With time.

Maybe that’s where strength lives. Quietly.

Competing Interests

None declared.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15566/etykyw45 | Journal eISSN: 2167-2415
Language: English
Page range: 231 - 231
Submitted on: Oct 31, 2025
Accepted on: Jan 25, 2026
Published on: Apr 17, 2026
Published by: Global Health Institute at William Carey International University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2026 Erap Gultian, published by Global Health Institute at William Carey International University
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.