Lord, my heart is broken, and the ache of it is almost physical — it sits in my chest and wakes me at night. Something, or someone, I loved is gone, and I keep reaching for what is no longer there. Your word says You will not despise a broken and contrite heart; You do not turn away from me in pieces. So come close to the pieces. I am not asking You to rush me through this or to make the grief convenient; I am asking You to sit with me in it, and to keep me tender rather than let this harden me. Hold me through the waves that arrive without warning. Help me grieve honestly, to feel what I need to feel without losing myself in it, and to let the people who love me close enough. Where I am tempted to believe I am unlovable now, remind me that I am not. You do not despise my broken heart, Lord; hold it, and me, until it can beat freely again. Amen.
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Prayer for a Broken Heart
When your heart is broken — by a loss, an ending, a love that's gone — you can bring the raw ache here without tidying it.
“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.”
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