Lord, my child is depressed, and if I could lift this weight off them and carry it in my own body, I would do it in a heartbeat — but it is one of the few things a parent cannot do for their child. Your word promises You will not leave us as orphans, that You come to us; so go where I am locked out, into the heaviness my child cannot describe and I cannot enter, and be with them there. Keep the smallest ember of who they are from going dark. Where depression whispers that they are a burden or that nothing will change, silence it with a truth they can feel. Help me love them the long, undramatic way this needs — staying when there is no breakthrough, hoping on their behalf when they cannot. And when the time comes, give us the way to real treatment, the kind this illness needs. I would trade places if You let me, Lord; since You will not, come to my child Yourself. Amen.
A prayer for you
Prayer for My Child With Depression
If you could take your child's depression into yourself, you would; here are words for that helpless love.
“I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.”
People ready to pray — matched to your situation
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Mother of Good Counsel
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Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church
New York
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EMERGE COUNSELING
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RUAH Counselling Centre
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Our Lady of Good Counsel
Lawrence, MA
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Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church
Little Rock, AR
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Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church
Mountain Home, ID
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Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church
Renault, IL
Call +1 618-458-7710
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