A Prayer for Healing After Miscarriage

Father, the room that was going to be a nursery is just a room again, and my body still aches with an emptiness that has no words. I was carrying a whole future, names half chosen, a heartbeat I heard once, and now there is only this silence.

I confess I do not understand, and I am tired of the kind people telling me reasons. I feel cheated and broken and strangely alone in a grief that others cannot see. Some moments I am numb; others the loss doubles me over.

So I bring this hidden sorrow to You, the One who knew this little life before it began, who held them and holds them still. You do not measure a person by how long they lived among us.

Tend the wound in my body and the deeper one in my heart. Make space for me to grieve without rushing toward being okay. Hold my partner too, who hurts in their own quiet way.

You promised to be near to the brokenhearted, and I have never been more broken than this. Be near now, Father. Carry what I cannot carry, and one day, gently, let hope grow again in this hollowed-out place. Amen.