again hope answers

Have you ever prayed a prayer, then prayed it
again -
Day upon month upon year?
Until it became a habit - a life.

And somewhere along the journey
hope -
stepped less buoyantly.
Until you believed - but not so brashly.

Then to be startled wide awake by arriving
answers -
so soft and natural and true?
Until you realized they had come home - unnoticed.