This text explores the challenges of maintaining faith and prayer in a world that often feels self-sufficient and disconnected from God. It suggests that while prayer should be natural, human sin and God's perceived hiddenness make it a struggle. The author highlights the tension between the Kingdom of God and the secular world, arguing that believers are called to live their faith within this world, even though it presents an imbalance favoring the tangible over the abstract. Maintaining faith is described as an ongoing effort given the world's pervasive influence and the abstract nature of belief. The text concludes that acts of faith are counter-cultural within the modern secular world.