Keep knocking. Doors in heaven don’t have a doorbell limit.

Persistence feels rude when you have been taught not to be a bother. After a few unanswered attempts most people go quiet, deciding that the silence was itself the answer and that asking again would be embarrassing. No such limit exists. Nothing is counting how many times you have come back.

Take the thing you stopped asking about and ask again this week. Say it plainly, without the apology at the front. Whether it is a prayer, an application or a person you gave up on reaching, let the silence so far be silence rather than a verdict you invented.