Things just aren’t right. Lord, I know we are in a fallen world. But we are your people. Why do we get so caught up on pushing other people down? Why do people have to use me to make themselves feel better? Why won’t people just ask me when the see things that just aren’t true? Why? I love. I care. I am here to serve all of us. And yet I am ridiculed. I am lied about. Lord, I guess you do know how I feel. Give me your strength. Give me your courage. I don’t know if I can walk beside you. Please carry me.
For everyone journaling here, mourning, being vulnerable to our community – may God bless you and give you comfort. Your leadership is courageous. Thank you for helping lead me through this time of reflection and this time of healing. I pray protection over you and your hearts and your minds and your bodies – protection from evil that may wish to silence your voice or cancel your thoughts. May you have courage through this time, and may our Lord Jesus hold you and carry you.
God sees you and your situation. He has never left you or forsaken you. He is sovereign and he will carry you through the fire when you don’t think you can walk through it at all. People will say mean things out of their insecurities to build themselves up but you don’t need to care what they say because you can have full security in knowing the one who made you. And God made you wonderfully and fearfully in his own image. No one will be able to combat who God says you are. You are loved, chosen, seen, and held.