A Kiss from Rose | A Prayer for the Grieving

Sep 2

2 min read

Lord, Reach the Places No One Else Can See

Father God,

Today, I pray for the person who is grieving—the person trying to figure out how life keeps moving when someone they love is no longer moving through life with them.

Lord, reach the intricate places that nobody else understands.

Reach the place that hurts when their name is mentioned. The place that aches when the phone doesn’t ring. The empty chair. The untouched belongings. The photographs they can look at one day but can’t bear to see the next. Reach those moments when they instinctively think, “I need to tell them this,” only to remember they can’t.

God, reach that place.

Comfort them when everybody has gone home and the calls have slowed down. When people assume they’re doing better because they’re smiling again. When they’re functioning on the outside but privately wondering how they’re supposed to live with this new reality.

Your Word says, “The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart.” — Psalm 34:18 (KJV)

So Lord, be near.

Don’t rush their grief. Don’t let them feel guilty for having a good day, and don’t let them feel defeated when a hard day returns.

Give them permission to laugh without feeling like they’ve forgotten.

To celebrate without feeling disloyal.

To rest without explaining.

To cry without apologizing.

And eventually, to live again without feeling guilty for surviving.

Lord, some grief isn’t only about death. Some are grieving relationships, marriages, friendships, health, dreams, homes, seasons, and versions of themselves they will never be again.

Meet every kind of grief personally.

When words don’t come, understand the tears.

When prayer feels impossible, hear the silence.

When all they can say is, “God, help me,” let those three words be enough.

And Father, don’t just help them get over what happened.

Carry them through it.

Let memories eventually bring more smiles than tears. Let gratitude begin to live beside sorrow. Let peace slowly find the places pain has occupied for so long.

And when grief unexpectedly knocks again months or years from now, remind them that having another hard moment doesn’t mean they haven’t healed. It simply means they loved deeply.

Your Word promises:

“Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” — Matthew 5:4 (KJV)

So comfort them, Lord.

In the bedroom.

In the car.

In the grocery store when a memory suddenly hits.

During holidays.

On birthdays.

At family gatherings.

At 2:17 in the morning when everybody else is asleep.

Go where nobody else can go.

Touch what nobody else can reach.