Lord, I am living under a heaviness that has no clear reason and will not lift just because I want it to. Depression has drained the colour out of things I used to enjoy, turned ordinary tasks into mountains, and dulled me to nearly everything. Your word does not tell me to cheer up or try harder; it says You are near to the broken-hearted and close to the crushed in spirit. So be near me in this flat, grey place, when I have no energy to reach back. I am not asking You to switch my brain chemistry like a light; I am asking You to keep me company through the long days, and to help me do the next small thing — get up, eat something, answer one message. Carry what I cannot carry. And give me the push to get real help, a doctor or a counsellor, because this is an illness and not a failure, and I was never meant to treat it alone. Be near, Lord, in the grey. Amen.
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