A Prayer When Life Feels Unbearable

Lord, I have reached the end of what I can carry. I do not have words to make this sound better than it is. Meet me here, in the place I would not have chosen and cannot escape. Keep me safe tonight. Put someone in my path who will listen. Hold me to this life, which is yours and not only mine, until the light comes back. Jesus, who wept and sweat blood and cried out from the cross — you know this place. Stay with me. Amen.