A Broken Heart’s Prayer
Dear Lord, how could he have done this to me? How could he forget his promises? How could he throw away in a moment all the things we have built all these years? How could he break my heart? Was it my fault? Was it me Lord? Tell me where I have gone wrong. Show me my sins, flash them before me so I may know. For I do not understand how all these things can be happening right now. I do not understand how something so good can suddenly end up the way it is today. We were so happy, Lord. We were so in love we have not a care in the world. It was just him and me, the two of us, and it was enough, probably more than enough. He was your gift to me, and I to him. We complement each other, we share so many things in common, it is to him that I opened up my heart. It is he Lord whom I trusted with all my heart.
How then can he break it so? How can he betray our love? How can he suddenly say he doesn’t love me anymore? It seemed not so long ago when we would simply walk hand in hand along the beach, when we would share a slice of pizza and be satisfied just the same, when we would gaze at the evening sky and count the stars, content of what we had, certain that it would last forever like the millions of stars in the sky. I believed in forever. Now I don’t know anymore. I know nothing anymore. Can love be lost in an instant? Can true love really just fade away? I am so broken deep within me Lord I do not know if I can still piece together every shattered part of me.
My friends say that it will heal in time. They say I should busy myself with this and that, date with this guy and that guy. But I don’t know Lord. Are these the things that can make me believe in love once again? Are these the things that can relieve this pain I feel in my heart? I am not only hurting, Lord. I feel so angry that I couldn’t do anything to avenge myself for this kind of suffering I do not deserve. Do I not deserve true love Lord? Do I not deserve loyalty, sincerity and respect? He makes me feel so bad, Lord. He makes me feel so bad about myself. I built my whole world around him, and he took it all away. I built my self esteem upon his admiration, and he trampled upon it as though it were trash. How can he not feel guilty for what he has done? How can he suddenly be so happy now in the arms of another woman? How can I ever build my world again? How can I ever be happy once more?
Please help me Lord, I really don’t know what to do. Only your words can comfort me. Only your embrace can soothe my pain. I have given everything I could my Lord, and there is nothing more I can give. I kneel before you now, crushed and broken, empty and afraid to be alone. Hide me under your wings, hold me in your loving arms. Say unto me again how much you love me. Say unto me that you have called me yours and you will never ever let me go. Though men may fail, you remain faithful, steadfast and immovable as a rock. Though men may judge me for all the faults they see in me, you see my heart and reveal to me the beautiful soul you see in me. Help me to let go of my pain, teach me to forgive those who do not even ask my forgiveness. This burden is something I shouldn’t carry in my heart. This trouble is not something I should trade away my peace for. I know that I have been done wrong, the things that have happened had been so unfair. Sometimes life’s like that. Many things in this life really seem so unfair. But let me not continue being unfair to myself. Let me not punish myself anymore for the things others have done.
I offer unto you my wounded heart, my broken heart. I know it is you my Lord who will uphold me in the end. Let me not lose hope. Let me not cast away everything that’s good and beautiful in this life. I know that there is so much more in store for me. I know how much love I can still give away because it is you who fills me with everything that I’ll ever need. You are the one who loves me truly, eternally, unconditionally. You are the one who has always been there for me and always will be there for me. You are my one true love. You are my forever. You are my strength and my peace and my joy. Surely in your presence Lord, I do not need anything more.
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Now am so much in pain, the man i love dont want me and love me anymore. I did everything to win him back yet he still insist he fall out of love…I need the lord to heal my broken heart its so much in pain..=(
@Mariane Charmi Musong – I’m glad you already did everything to win him back. It only means you will no longer have any regrets and you can now move on to face a better life. The pain will linger awhile, but God is certain to be with you. Don’t give up, there will come a time when this too, shall pass away, and you will be able to look forward to a happier life with people who will truly care for you. Be blessed!
now,I’m very pain because my heart broken.
I don’t know ,what should I do? I’m so weakness and hopeless.
Please pray for me, I need help and suggestion from God.
thanks for your share story that closed to me
@Kaew – I pray for you, it may be difficult for now, but with God’s help you can come out of this a stronger person. Spend more time with God, He will strengthen you and give you the grace to carry on. God bless!
This prayer hits very close to home for me. I have been dealing with so much heartbreak in the past couple of months that I am barely surviving. I cry everyday, all day until the tears dry up. My brother passed away unexpectedly at the age of 27 on 12/19/10. If that wasn’t hard enough, my husband who I have been with for nine years left me about four months after that. He couldn’t give me a reason for why he didn’t want to be with my anymore, and he hasn’t talked to me for four months since then. He has a new phone number, I don’t know where he lives, I just don’t understand what happened. I was taken by complete shock. My whole life the past nine years has been with him. Everything I have I own with him, and now it’s all gone and I don’t know what to do.
Going back to my brothers death, his wife, my sister-in-law decided to take my niece and move away to GA. I feel like I have lost everything. I went from having a very close family of seven, to it just being me and my parents. I have also lost my husbands family and friends. The problem is that I gave up everything for him. He had a drinking problem in the early stages of our relationship, so I gave up all of my friends that drank, so I could be with him. Now when I need him most he is gone and I don’t have any friends. I gave my whole world to him only to be crushed. I was happy to do it, I loved him and I know he needed my support. I’m not completely innocent in all of this though. I have fibromyalgia and hypothyroidism, so I have been sick for the latter parts of our relationship and he has taken care of me. Last year I was taking pain pills on advice from a dr and didn’t realize I was addicted until I got really sick and couldn’t take them in October. I hurt him, because I was mean to him and all I wanted to do was sleep.
The problem is that I know I screwed up, and he says he has given me all these chances, but I really didn’t know about them. I just need to be forgiven. I need a chance to prove to him I have changed. The worst part about it all, was that right before my brother passed I wasn’t sick anymore. I had weaned off the pain pills. Stopped taking a bunch of medication I was taking and was feeling amazing. I was ready to move into our new home together and start over after our “rough” patch. Because he hasn’t talked to me I don’t know what is going on in his head. To everyone else it’s obvious, he doesn’t want to talk to me, he has gone out of his way to do it. But he won’t divorce me either, because when he left he said he wanted to take care of me. I told him he can’t have it both ways, but in that conversation he just left me crying in the driveway of my parents house. I shouldn’t still want him back, but I do. My heart actually hurts. I don’t feel whole anymore. The hard part it that I know he isn’t the same person he was, but I keep praying that he will get over his funk and go back to being that person. I guess I should mention in Feb. he told me he was really depressed and started taking anti-depressants. So I know he is not the same, but he won’t let me in.
I don’t know if I should keep praying for him, or just to give up. I have been praying ever since he first mentioned the words split up, but the pain has only gotten worse. I don’t have my brother to talk to, who was my best friend, even though I know he is looking down on me from heaven. My niece was my little best friend and she is all but gone, it’s not the same. She lived with my parents from the time she was two months old until now and she is 3 years and 8 months old. Then my sister-in-law who I became even more close with after my brother died isn’t here either.
I’m 30, I feel like this is the worst age to be single. All of my friends either still party and go to bars, or are settling down, having kids and I feel stuck. I don’t have a job because I was sick, I’m living with my parents, and I have a best friend who lives in NJ.
Please pray for me because I’m giving up hope. The hurt instead of getting better is getting worse and worse. I feel more alone everyday and my heart breaks a little more each day. God bless you all for being there for other people. This site has given me so much comfort.
Almost four months have passed since the day when I arrived home and everything she owned was gone. As I sat there in tears, she came back for last minute items she had forgotten not expecting me to be back so soon. Her only explanation was that she could no longer stay with me out of pity. If only she would’ve shared these feelings earlier so that we could work on problems i never even knew had. As the weeks went by I shed not a single tear only feeling the anger and resentment. After “first date” number four, I was driving home and realized i was still in love with her and had not grieved the way i should have. The only thing that has kept me waking up every morning is my four year old son. I read this prayer and broke down in many tears. I will keep my faith in him so that he may mend my broken heart. Even after all this suffering, I wish upon her no ill will. All I ask is for strength and the will to keep going forward.
@Gabe – I pray that God may indeed strengthen you during these tough times. Know that having loved someone is to have had a great opportunity to leave a meaningful imprint upon your own soul and upon another’s. You have loved, and you’ve been blessed for having done so. I admire you for wishing her no illwill, it only shows that you have truly loved.
Today may be the time God desires you to have a little rest and to renew your strength. It’s not wrong to also love ourselves so we can continue loving other people in the future. You deserve to be loved, too. And maybe this was just a way to let go of something good for something really better, for someone who can respect you and love you more.
Kind Regards,
JOYCE
For 4 months I’ve been praying and reading for God’s comfort. The pain won’t seem to go away. I’ve been in a relationship for three years and then he left me ( i can relate in the prayer). Even though the pain still lives here in my heart, I know little by little Jesus is healing me. Full of trust in him, I know someday I’ll be okay again… I will never lose faith in believing that God will never stop doing good things for us, especially for those who are in pain. And let God’s anger take care for those who have wronged us. Lets live in a peaceful life and continue praying not just for ourselves but for others who are also in pain. Pray that we will always have the patience and faith, waiting for God’s perfect time to heal our hearts..=)