Someone in our community shared something that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about.
She came to faith in a family from a completely different religion.
They don’t know know yet.
She was baptized in secret.
She’s carrying the most important thing in her life completely alone, and she asked us to pray for her protection, her faith, and her family’s hearts.
I wrote this for her… and for anyone else out there holding faith in a place where it isn’t yet safe to say so out loud.
Written March 17, 2026, for the ones who know Him but cannot yet say so out loud.
Nobody Knows
I came to You quietly, Lord. No one watched. No one sang. The water was cold and the moment was real and I walked out of it changed… into a life that looks exactly the same from the outside. Nobody knows. I sit at the table with the people I love most and carry You like a secret tucked beneath the ordinary — the passing of bread, the familiar voices, the life we’ve built together that does not yet have room for this. I am not ashamed of You. I want to say that clearly, even if it’s just in the quiet where only You can hear: I am not ashamed. I am afraid. And I know You know the difference. You were there in the water. You saw the whole thing. You watched me come up from under and You didn’t ask me to announce it. You just said: you are mine. That was enough. It’s enough today when the table is full and I’m holding something nobody is ready to hold with me. Lord, I ask for the thing I cannot ask anyone else for: Keep this. Keep what You started in me. Let it grow in the dark the way roots do — quietly, without applause, toward something only You can see now. And in Your time, not mine, open what is closed. Soften what is hard. Bring the day when I don’t have to be quiet anymore. Until then, I will carry You the only way I can right now. Secretly. Gratefully. Completely. Because being known by You is not nothing. It is everything. — Mary Kaye Chambers
📖 Relevant Scriptures
Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
- Matthew 10:32 (KJV)
And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
- Acts 8:36–38 (KJV)
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
- Romans 10:9–10 (KJV)
But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
- Isaiah 43:1 (KJV)
If you’re carrying faith alone right now — if this psalm belongs to your story — I would be honored to pray for you. Feel free to leave a comment below or message me with your story.
With Love,
Mary Kaye
💌 Before You Go
If you want to understand what it means to carry faith in a world that’s hostile to it, Nabeel Qureshi’s Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus is one of the most honest books I’ve encountered on that experience.
Thank you for sharing @katerina! 💕