A Prayer for Infertility
For the ache of longing for a child — honest lament, and a God who hears.
The longing for a child, month after month, is a particular and lonely grief. This prayer is for that ache — honest, without easy answers, brought to the God who heard Hannah.
The prayer
Father, you know the longing I carry and the disappointment that keeps returning. I will not pretend I am fine. Like Hannah, I pour out my soul before you.
This hope feels heavier every month, and the world seems full of what I do not have. Meet me in the ache; do not let bitterness take root, and do not let me feel forgotten.
You are able to do what seems impossible, and I ask you, boldly, for a child. Yet whatever you give or withhold, help me trust that you are good and that you have not overlooked me.
Give me strength for the waiting and grace for the news that is hard to hear. Fill the emptiness with your nearness, and hold my hope. Amen.
For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
For this child I prayed — Hannah's words, remembered by God. He hears the prayers no one else knows you are praying.
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