It is the waiting time that truly tests ones faith. The time between your prayers and the answers where one’s faith is sometimes pulled to the last string. If G-D answers yes by having your prayers come true it’s easy to have faith and when it’s no well maybe you’re praying for something where G-D has a different plan but when there is no direct answer you truly wonder not only why but when? How much can one bear not knowing which path is right or even if there walking alone in the woods? Yet just like a pearl the waiting might harden us so when eventual our prayers are answered we will brilliantly walk in the path that is just bright enough for our new shine.