Loving God, who is compassionate in our pain, send us encouragement and support when we fall into despair, that we might have sufficient strength to push through our sorrow and stand up again, bolstered by faith in your capacity to redeem all things, through Jesus our brother, who empathizes with our suffering and intercedes for us before you in the Holy Spirit always. Amen.
‘But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die, “It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.” Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, “Get up and eat.”‘ – 1 Kings 19:4-5