Lord, my father is depressed, and it unsettles me to see a man who never admitted weakness brought this low. Your word puts honest words in a mouth like his: I am poor and needy; You are my help and my deliverer — do not delay. So do not delay for my dad. Meet him in a place his pride has rarely let him go: the place of needing help and not being able to fix himself. Be his help where his own strength has failed. I am not asking You to make him his old self overnight; I am asking You to keep him, and to soften the shame a man of his generation may feel about a struggle like this. Give me a way to support him that protects his dignity. And open a door, gently, to real treatment, because being strong was never the same thing as being well. You are my father's help, Lord. Do not delay. Amen.
A prayer for you
Prayer for My Father With Depression
Seeing depression weigh on your father — perhaps a man who never showed weakness — is its own quiet grief.
“But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God.”
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