PrayerStarters to Help You Heal After Loss
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PrayerStarters to Help You Heal After Loss - Elizabeth Stalling
Introduction
It’s the hardest to pray when we hurt, it seems. What we want to do instead is yell and scream and moan and cry. What we don’t realize is that these expressions, too, are prayers in themselves. As a matter of fact, these may be the only ways to pray after losing someone close to us. Less-than-sweet
prayers are surely all God expects of us in our hardest times. And it is only by moving through grief that we can get beyond grief. That means letting our feeling prayers be healing prayers.
This small collection of PrayerStarters is just that: a collection of motivators and starters, to keep us on the way toward healing. They are intended to help us create prayer experiences and prayer expressions—and not just prayer-words.
Indeed, it is in expression and communication—whether giving or receiving—that all prayer happens. Thus included in this work are Scripture passages and quotations from many inspiring sources—all designed to help us find the words and the ways to express to God our sadness, anger, loneliness, guilt, and other painful feelings that come with grief.
These prayerstarters are also intended to help us listen to God. For indeed, so much of prayer is in the listening, the receiving, the paying attention, rather than in the speaking or doing.
Fortunately, non-word
prayer seems to come easier and more naturally when we hurt. (Remember that great line in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea: ‘Ay,’ he said aloud. There is no translation for this word and perhaps it is just a noise such as a man might make, involuntarily, feeling the nail go through his hands and into the wood.
) These prayer-starters, then, meet grievers where they are
: ready to pray such prayers as a prayer of tears, a prayer of anger, or a silent prayer of a soul feeling abandoned.
May the words and suggestions on these pages help get the healing started in our lives. May these words lift