Prayer For The Broken

So much of my life has been spent in oblivion--that strange place where you try to forget all the bad stuff that’s happened in your life and focus on the good. You try and forget the bad stuff about your friends, relationships, work, life, etc. and focus on what’s good about all those things.
I have purposely tried to avoid negative things because sometimes not knowing the truth is better than the alternative: knowing the truth and allowing it to hurt or affect you. Sometimes, I avoid hearing gossip for this very reason. I would rather not know why people dislike each other because I choose instead to form my own opinion one way or the other. I’d rather not know the toils and obstacles or the shortcomings in a person’s character or life because I’d like to continue to see them as better people than perhaps they really are.
Sometimes, inevitably, you learn about people when you spend time with them. You get to know the good, the bad, and sometimes, the ugly. I realize when I share who it is I am, my past "horrors" tend to scare people away at first because they assume things about me or make judgements about who I am based on my past. That is understandable when you look around and see how many people out there are broken, hurting, sad.
Recently, I was told some disheartening information about someone I hadn’t ever known before. All the questions I had asked myself about this person’s personality were suddenly resolved in the discovery. I was shocked to say the least that this person was so completely broken and lost. Some people are always a victim, a victim of circumstances, a victim of bad relationships, a victim of their own self-deprecating behavior.
Perhaps one day I will have the courage to attempt to post a blog more about this … but for now, I just wanted to say a little prayer for all of those out there who are broken and hurting.
Lately, I have struggled to find faith even in its smallest measure. If you could pray this with me, maybe if there’s a God up there, we can convince him to help heal some of these people so they can find happiness in their lives. If you are the one hurting, or have been hurt, abused, abandoned, whatever, in the past, I hope you can find peace.

God I pray that you help those who are hurting in their lives, those who are sad or broken. I pray that you would lift those people up, bless them, and help them to find peace. I pray that you help them realize that they have a purpose here on earth and they just need to find what it is. I pray that you would offer them comfort in their time of need and that you would look into their hearts and heal their hurts so that they can find whatever purpose it is that they were meant for. I pray that they are able to let go of their hurts and hang-ups and let go of those hurts they have suffered in the past. I pray that you give them strength for this journey of healing and I pray that their hearts are opened to let something new and wonderful happen in their lives. All this I pray in your name. Amen.