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Prayers for Tough Times

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PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING FOR GOD’S PRESENCE

 

Spirit God, you know our needs

our wounds

our hurts

our fears

even before we can form them

into words of prayer.

You are patient with us.

You are protective of us.

You are present with us

until such time that we are able

to ask for what we need.

Thank you, Spirit God,

for your healing taking place within

before we are even aware

of how broken we have become.

Susan Gregg-Schroeder

In the Shadow of God’s Wings

Upper Room Books, 1997, pg. 116

‘God of glory, we rejoice that

(insert ‘a breakthrough in treatment’ or other significant event in healing)

has occurred.

Thank you for the various resources and people

who helped this to be possible

(insert here, if desired).

May the light of Your love continue to shine on

(insert individual struggling with mental health issue)

and all who support (him/her),

that light may continue to shine

in the midst of mental illness,

and everywhere.

Amen.’

Adapted from a prayer by Melissa Roberts.