Father God,

Today, I pray for the wounded in spirit, who have the scars of life’s flow rather than life’s events.

We can more easily recognize those who were scarred by an event such as a loss, an attack, an illness, a pain, or other occurrence which came and went in a short time. What we don’t recognize, even when we ourselves experienced it, are the flows of our days which eroded us, leaving not cracks in our spirits, but wore away the shape of our beings including the deepening of the cracks of those visible events.

These scars can even be invisible in a sense to those who experience them, though they feel the pain. The pain does not affect their spirit in the same way however. Rather than a recognizable pain that is clearly connected to a present and/or past event, the pain of life’s flow cannot be described or connected so easily. The present pain seems out of proportion to the present’s events, yet the intensity is as undeniable as it is indescribable.

I pray that You would give sight into the darkness for those experience such scar of life’s flow and for those who walk presently with them. I pray that with Your light, they could both see what is the real reason for present pain as well as discover security in You and in those around them. I pray that the present security in You and Your hands and feet of loved ones would press healing into the previously invisible wounds and scars so that they would overcome.

Lord, have mercy on those who are captive to these invisible yet painful scars.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.