A Prayer For A Child With Big Feelings

A Prayer for a Child with Big Feelings

O Lord, tune our hearts

So that we may be perceptive to our child

As they process the complicated world around them.

Help us guide humbly

Without needing every right answer.

Help us speak honestly

Without flooding them with information.

O Lord, lead us as we open our arms

To bring our little one and their big feelings close.

For they have picked up our grown-up worries

And worn them as their own,

Mirroring our own furrowed brows and tight shoulders

After hearing bits of a hushed conversation

Or catching a headline not meant for the young.

In our child’s confusion,

May we be a safe place to land.

In our child’s anger,

May we have the wisdom to help them process.

In our child’s sadness,

May we create a space for listening.

In our child’s anxieties,

May we help them find ways to heal.

O Christ, who welcomed little children

In their full humanity,

Grant us compassion and connectivity,

Empathy and endurance

As we walk with our child

Toward Your great love.

Deuteronomy 31:8; Zephaniah 3:17