A Prayer for Strength to Carry On After Loss

Father, the loss is behind me now, but I am still standing in the wreckage of the life I had. Everyone has gone back to normal, and I am left to figure out how to live in a world that is missing a piece.

I confess I do not know how to go forward. The future I planned is gone, and the path ahead is unfamiliar and dim. Some days getting out of bed is the only thing I accomplish.

So I bring this uncertain road to You, the One who makes a way in the wilderness and water in the desert. I cannot see the shape of my life after this, but I trust that You can.

Give me strength to rebuild, slowly, without pretending I am healed before I am. Show me the next small thing to do. Let me find, somewhere up ahead, that life can hold meaning again.

You said You are doing a new thing, that even now it is springing up, and You will make a way where I see none. Help me believe that on the days I cannot feel it.

I will carry on, not by forgetting, but by trusting that You are building something new from the pieces. Amen.