A Prayer for Grief That Will Not Lift

Father, the grief has not lifted, and I am beginning to wonder if it ever will. Months have passed, maybe years, and still the heaviness sits on my chest each morning before I am even fully awake.

I am tired of feeling broken. I am tired of waiting to feel like myself again. People expected me to be better by now, and somewhere I started believing my lingering sorrow means something is wrong with me.

I bring this long, stubborn ache to You, the weariness of a grief that overstayed every timeline. You are not impatient with me. You do not check the clock on my healing.

Meet me in the place where I am stuck. If there is something underneath this I need to face, gently show me. If I simply need more time, give me patience with my own slow heart.

You promised that those who wait on You will find their strength renewed, that they will rise on wings like eagles and not grow faint. Renew the strength that grief has worn away.

I stop demanding a deadline of myself, and I trust You with the timing. Carry me until the heaviness finally lifts. Amen.