A Prayer For When Your Child Is Sick At Home

A Prayer for When Your Child Is Sick at Home

To the Maker of all things bright and beautiful,

To the Creator of all bodies,

Small and vulnerable,

May You present Yourself

In every nose wiped,

Temperature checked,

And blanket touched.

In their warm foreheads,

Give them rest.

In the tissues crumpled on the floor,

Give us hope.

Let us remember

You are the God who sees,

Who makes good bodies.

In every jagged breath and

Every fever dream,

May we remember that

We nurture our children because

You have shown us

Divine love.

For disrupted schedules

And reminders of

Our shared humanity,

We turn to You—

You, the God who never abandons

In the aches

And exhaustion

Of sickness

And of caring for it.

Give us rest

In the form of

Soft pillows

And community support.

For the clean water on the nightstand,

We give thanks.

For the doctor on call,

We give thanks.

For the pharmacy window,

We give thanks.

And we pray for the day all parents

Can have access to sick days

And bedside care.

Give healing to the weary

In our home

And around the world.

We pray this in the name of Jesus,

Who did not shirk humanity

Or imperfect immune systems,

Who knows intimately and infinitely

Our children’s congestion

And our own human condition.

We pray this in the name of Jesus,

Who was cared for

By His earthly parents

And by You.

Amen.

Philippians 2:7; John 1:14