Lord, my mother is struggling with depression, and it is disorienting to be the one steadying the woman who steadied me my whole life. Your word remembers a moment of saying my foot is slipping, and Your love holding the person up — so hold my mother up now, in the places where her own footing has given way. I cannot talk her out of this heaviness, and I have stopped trying to; I am simply staying. Give me patience for the same conversations, gentleness on the days she cannot pretend to be okay, and the grace not to resent a role I did not expect. Help me honour her by taking her struggle seriously, never brushing it off as just her age or her mood. And lead us, gently, toward the help she needs but might be too proud or too tired to seek. Hold my mother up, Lord, the way she once held me. Amen.
A prayer for you
Prayer for My Mother With Depression
When depression takes hold of your mother, the worry reverses; here are words for an adult child holding her.
“When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your loving kindness, LORD, held me up.”
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