Prayer for Trust and Communion During Illness
Bring illness, pain and disappointment to God and ask for sustaining trust, spiritual strength and kindness toward others.
Historical edition. Historical claims and instructions are preserved as historical context.
O God, help us to trust where we cannot see, and to feel that life is not necessarily a failure because we are shut out from its activities. Grant us in sickness such visions and such communion with Thee that disease of the body shall be transformed into a healer of the soul; and, as the crushed rose the sweeter fragrance emits, so may our sorrows chasten and refine us.
O Heavenly Father, grant that all our sickness and pain and disappointment may so sweeten our dispositions, purify our character and strengthen our souls that we shall bring heaven’s sunlight into the lives of all whom we meet. In Jesus’ name. Amen.