Persevere

 It is very difficult to persevere in prayer and meditation when it seems to yield no comfort on the surface of thoughts, feelings, and emotions. This can be the occasional problem with prayer in solitude.  "It is not working" we say because we don't feel something.  One of the reasons we like doing some things, even addictively, is because we "feel" something that makes us feel momentarily good or better.  But such things only touch the surface of ourself.  We all have a much deeper level.  The prayer of solitude, meditation, touches and feeds that depth and in turn we are fed but don't "feel" anything at the moment.  When we did an immediate feel good thing, such as an addictive behavior, we might have an instant feel good, followed by not so good or disaster.  Solitude is just the opposite.  Feel nothing in the moment.  But then your life seems to be getting better.  Must be some Power at work here.