Prayers for Mental Health
A Prayer in Loneliness
A contemporary pastoral prayer rooted in Christ's abandonment in Gethsemane and in the long monastic tradition of naming solitude honestly.
Lord Jesus, you were left by your friends on the worst night of your life. You know what this feels like.
I am tired of my own company and afraid of needing people too much.
Be near to me now, not as an idea but as a presence.
Give me the courage to reach out first,
to answer the message I have been avoiding,
to walk into the room.
And where there is no one, let your nearness be enough until there is. Amen.
Contemporary pastoral prayer
About the prayer
Christians have always insisted that loneliness is not a sign of God's absence; the Church itself was given as part of the answer.
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