Father, we lift up to you those who suffer from mental illness. It is so much more difficult to navigate our medical system when our ability to think is under attack. Give grace to their psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers who give aid to these your children. Assure your children of your love for them despite their actions which seem to others to be out of control. Give grace to their families who struggle to understand and to help them. Guard them in their weakened state from attacks by evil, especially drug and alcohol abuse.
Help us all to respond in grace to those you place in our lives rather then with fear or anger. Help us to minister your love to our friends and loved ones while not enabling them to further damage their lives. Guard and protect those whose minds are so damaged that they are not able to guard and protect themselves. These are truly the "least of these" who find a special place in your heart. Make our hearts soft to care for them as you do.
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