Prayer of intercession for those shocked, traumatised, terrified

O God of all consolation

Who consoles us with a consolation that we often don’t understand or even see at the time, who carries us through the threshold of calamity even if it feels like we’re utterly alone, who convinces us to keep trusting even when we feel like it’s hopeless; come.

Come now, God. Come now into the ONE who is ailing and reeling; shocked beyond belief, traumatised this instant, terrified for what to do or even how to breathe.

You have shown me a sign in the ONE. And that ONE was two, no, now three, who needed this most desperate covering at a time when death descended like an almighty cloak of fear. Terror becomes the ONE right now, Lord, and they are betwixt and between, and utterly horrified for what they mind can now not unknow.

Come to their mind, Lord, come deeper within their thoughts and cause the safety of numbness; a spiritual elixir that they can neither explain nor reject. Help them be anaesthetised by a spiritual transaction that calms their gait right now. Help them not to depart into the darker realms of intoxification. Help them stay in this moment and bring them the help they so desire.

Be ever real in this moment as they reach forth for the care they need, and please, by Your Spirit provide the care they so implore You for.

For the shock, Lord, give a grace to the ONE that transcends their understanding. Give them a strange comfort that seems impossible given their circumstances. In their terror, give a peace that hardly warrants sense—that can only come from You.

You impress upon me, now, Lord that I’m to pray that they sleep. I pray it’s a rest that revives their hope that the weight of this trauma, too, shall pass. Even as they wake, Lord, may it be that the rest they had in their unconscious state prevails consciously, and that an external as well as an internal peace sponsors their hope.

Covenant God, all holder of life, I beseech You by the all-powerful grace that is Yours alone to give, to give it so generously that the ONE who needs it even as these words are prayed or read will get what they need and be spiritually triaged well.

I pray this in the name of our Messiah and Consoler,

AMEN.

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash