Father please help Mel know while her prayers are definitely NOT wrong...your absence of patience IS. God is not a cosmic bellhop who sits and waits to receive our list of petitions and then delivers them checking them off to make us happy. His sense of knowing goes far beyond anything we can imagine. We must offer our prayers and wait. We can continue to pray earnestly but then we still must wait. Mel...what will you do if it is God's will that this relationship not be restored for 5 years or 8 or ever? If we are to be true believers we have to ask and know that God will do what He does when he is ready...IF and WHEN He thinks it is best for us and not a minute before. No amount of whining or crying or asking will change His timing...(I should know as I used to be one of the biggest of the whiners! :-) Pray and then be still...the longer you watch that kettle of water waiting for it to boil...the longer it won't! Relax...let go...and Let God! And in the meantime...go on with your life and be blessed! In Jesus name!!! Amen!