Writing your prayers down lets you look back and see answers you would’ve forgotten.

Memory edits aggressively in one direction. You keep every unanswered thing and quietly lose the ones that resolved, which leaves you convinced nothing ever changes. Writing it down takes the editing out of your hands. Months later the page shows you what you were desperate about in March and what became of it, and some of those entries will surprise you.

Start a page in the notes app this week. Date, one line, what you are asking for, with no scoring and no decorating. Read the whole page back at the end of the term and see what has moved.