Prayers for doctors, nurses and healthcare workers
When you are pressed from every side
Hard pressed, not crushed.
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
2 Corinthians 4:8-18, NIV
Lord, I am hard pressed but You promise I will not be crushed. I feel struck down, but I am not destroyed. Help me not lose heart. Even as I struggle outwardly, renew me inwardly day by day. Let me see my troubles as light and momentary compared to the eternal glory You are preparing.
Hard Pressed But Not Crushed, from the grief or despair prayers
The other moments
- Before a shift Steady hands, a clear head, and kindness when you are tired.
- When you are carrying too much For the weight that does not clock out, and the cry in the car.
- After losing a patient The day someone died and you were there, and the family in the hallway.
- The case you cannot put down The one you keep reopening: the miss, the what-if, the guilt.
- When your worth feels like your last result The evaluation, the grant, the match, the ranking.
- The 3 a.m. one For the night shift, and the nights you cannot sleep.
- When you are the one who is supposed to have the answer A high priest who understands weakness.
- Sunday, on call For the Sundays the schedule takes.
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