For a nurse with a secret wound

Father, I just want to lift up a new friend who is pained by a secret wound. Thou knowest her well, she helps to heal little children with dreadful problems like brain tumors and weak hearts.

She is merciful and kind and above all, dedicated. She travels to Africa to help with surgeries on needy children and spends 18 hours in surgery, then sleeps and does it again the next day.

Her heart is broken into little pieces. Please grant her the peace that she seeks. Help her to grieve and to mourn and to feel the anger and the bitterness... and to do it in a way that causes it to dissolve rather than to fester. Help her to find joy in her marriage, in her kitty, in the children, in her music, in her garden. Help her to lose herself in the joy of Thine embrace.

Thank you, Father, for putting us all together in ways that we can lift one another.

er.