A Prayer about Our Tear-Counting God

You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle.  You have recorded each one in your book. Psalm 56:8 

Tear-Counting God,

It has been a long season of loss for many.

Our friends are mourning, as are we…

We’ve lost homes in fires and floods,

We’ve lost children to miscarriage and the misery of sin,

We’ve lost aunts and uncles and mothers and fathers to Covid and cancer,

We’ve lost relationships to betrayal and abuse…

We’ve shed so many tears.

How can we endure the pain, Lord?

Only by knowing that you care about our tears,

that you count and collect them.

Only by knowing that you sent your Son

to weep real tears before he died on a cross

to redeem all of our tears.

Only by knowing that one day, our Savior will return,

and in that day, you will ever so gently

wipe the tears from our eyes. 

How we look forward to that day!

How we thank you for your love!

In Jesus’ weeping name. Amen.

Read Psalm 56; Revelation 21:4.