Are You Hurting? Let us Pray
For some, the Advent/Christmas season is a painful time of year. A time to be
gotten through, tackled, weathered like a storm. How can the rest of
the world be rejoicing if someone I love is in the throes of a serious
illness? How can I turn on a radio if I'm taking a chance on hearing my
recently deceased father's favorite carol? While everyone else is
celebrating, I just might burst into tears.
I suspect many of us have had such seasons, at one time or another, over the years. Times when we'd rather just skip the decorating and the ho-ho-hos and wait for a white blanket of January to settle the world back into its normal routine.
If anyone reading this is grieving, in pain, depressed by the long dark nights of winter, or maybe just wishing the holidays would be over and gone - know that you are not alone.
In fact, you are so "not alone" that I'm going to ask a favor of everyone reading this.
Could we each take just a minute and offer a little prayer for anyone coming across these words who might be hurting? If this post gets to a number of people, that could amount to quite a few prayers.
May God lift burdens, heal pains, comfort loneliness, and soothe hearts.
(condensed from a recent post on The Cloistered Heart)
I suspect many of us have had such seasons, at one time or another, over the years. Times when we'd rather just skip the decorating and the ho-ho-hos and wait for a white blanket of January to settle the world back into its normal routine.
If anyone reading this is grieving, in pain, depressed by the long dark nights of winter, or maybe just wishing the holidays would be over and gone - know that you are not alone.
In fact, you are so "not alone" that I'm going to ask a favor of everyone reading this.
Could we each take just a minute and offer a little prayer for anyone coming across these words who might be hurting? If this post gets to a number of people, that could amount to quite a few prayers.
May God lift burdens, heal pains, comfort loneliness, and soothe hearts.
(condensed from a recent post on The Cloistered Heart)
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