Praying for the broken

Yesterday, I was talking with my sister about one of our cousins.

Apparently, our cousin was telling my sister about what a terrible father our uncle was. That when she was born, my uncle wouldn’t come to the hospital because he had wanted a boy.

And he would actually tell her, “I wish you had been a boy.”

She has carried that hurt with her for over 50 years.

Reading today’s passage reminded me that broken people are nothing new. Leah was broken. Rachel was broken. Jacob was broken.

Yet God sees, hears, and remembers us. And he wants to bring healing.

He wants to break us out of our pain cycle and bring us into his peace cycle in which his truth and his love reigns in our hearts. Because that’s really the only way that healing can happen.

And so I’m praying for my cousin today. I’m praying that she would find God.

I’m praying that by his grace, he would take away the disgrace and pain of her past. And I’m praying that in him, she would find peace.

Who are the broken people God wants you to pray for?