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Be Not Afraid Healingproblems and desires, we might be more successful indiscerning his will by becoming silent and letting himspeak.Finally, we should also realize that God may notrespond to our prayers for healing in the way we expecthim to, and that the questions we ask may not even beanswerable in the way we want them to be. Writing inA Grief Observed, C. S. Lewis noted, “When I lay somequestions before God I get no answer. But a ratherspecial sort of ‘No answer.’ It is not the locked door.It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate,gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal butwaiving the question. Like, ‘Peace, child, you don’tunderstand.’”Lewis continues, “Can a mortal ask questions whichGod finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think…How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow squareor round? Probably half the questions we ask – halfour great theological and metaphysical problems – arelike that.”Given the modern tendency to believe that we canfind a cure for every ailment, if we search hard enough,this is an important point to contemplate. In the realmof healing, for example, how can we be sure that thetreatment is more important than the ailment? Wheredoes one end and the other begin? Could it be that theyare sometimes one and the same? When an arrogant,1