Here’s another prayer – featured now in my free e-book For Such a Time as This – that may help you to find words to articulate some of your thoughts and fears when you’re struggling to pray during these dark days of the coronavirus pandemic, reminding you that, however much it may feel like it, you are not alone.
Thank you, Lord, for family at this time
Thank you, Lord, for family at this time;
for loved ones, there to support us,
to demonstrate love and care in action,
to do what they can for us in time of need.
Thank you for friends;
those to whom our welfare really matters,
who seek to help us in whatever ways they can,
showing their concern,
compassion
and friendship,
not just through words
but through deeds.
Hear our prayer for those who do not have such support,
who are truly alone –
those for whom long days of isolation were already an all too frequent reality,
and who now feel cut off from all:
frightened,
helpless,
hopeless.
Reach out to them,
assuring them that you are by their side,
and help us too, in whatever ways we can,
to reach out likewise,
and show them they are not abandoned or forgotten.
Amen.