Prayers for Mental Health
A Prayer for a Grieving Heart
A contemporary pastoral prayer that follows the biblical pattern of lament, closing with the ancient Requiem aeternam used across the Western Church.
God of all comfort, the person I love is gone and the world has not stopped.
I do not want to be told this is for the best.
I want to know that you see it, that their life mattered, that love is not wasted.
Sit with me in this.
Let me weep without apologizing.
Guard me from the guilt that keeps me awake at three in the morning.
Give me strength for ordinary days, and hold them safe in your mercy until we meet again.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. Amen.
Contemporary pastoral prayer with traditional Requiem aeternam
About the prayer
Christian grief is not required to be tidy: Jesus wept at the tomb of a friend he was about to raise.
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