Lord, I feel abandoned. People who should have stayed did not — and the wound of being left has a way of convincing me that I am easy to walk away from. Your word holds a hard, tender truth: that even if my own father and mother forsake me, You will take me up. So take me up now, into the care I did not get or could not keep. I am not asking You to erase the hurt or excuse the people who caused it; I am asking You to be the faithfulness I have been missing, the One who does not leave. Tend the part of me that braces for everyone to eventually go. Heal, slowly, what abandonment broke, and keep it from hardening into a wall that shuts out the people who would actually stay. Help me risk trusting again, and lead me toward safe people and real support. You will not forsake me, Lord. Hold on to me, and teach me to believe it. Amen.
A prayer for you
Prayer for When You Feel Abandoned
When the people who should have stayed have left, and you feel abandoned, here are words for that deep wound.
“When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.”
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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