a prayer for healing
Dear Merciful Lord,
Why is it that healing takes so long?
Why is that healing sometimes seems to hurt before it helps?
I think about these questions daily, and in You, I always find solace and comfort even without knowing the exact answers.
Because even though I might not know the length of this process or why it brings me pain, I know the purpose and power that you are placing behind it and working all through it.
Shedding skin full of hardship, pain, trauma, and loss is truly a difficult and long journey.
It feels uncomfortable, and whenever I feel I am taking a few steps forward, life hits me again like a dark relentless storm and knocks me back again.
But in these times of doubt, tears, and “final straws,” continue to bless me with Your calming presence,
and help to remind me that healing, true and bountiful healing,
rests only in You.
Father God, help me to remember that healing has no timeline and is not linear,
and that there might be growing pains,
and that it doesn’t always go according to my plan or comfort zone, but it instead is completely guided and nurtured by You and Your unwavering agape love.
Every step, whether it is a leap forward or a tumbling back, I know that you will be by my side.
So thank you for being my anchor during every storm.
Thank you in advance for the work you’ve already done, are currently doing, and are planning to do for me.
Thank you for helping those I love as they weather their perspective storms and strive towards healing too.
Thank you in advance for the better people you are masterfully crafting us to become.
