Mercy

I am worried about my friend. He's very sad. He's very lonely. I can't help him. I've tried. I really have. He's just so sad.

He cannot even envision tomorrow. It's not that he doesn't think anything good will happen. It's that he literally can't imagine what the future could possibly look like.

He's been cast totally adrift. He's lost his anchor. The anchor that he's held onto for the past five years. It's gone off to buy condoms and block him on facebook. He's in a dark place.

I've tried to comfort, and I've tried to provide hope, but I just don't understand the pain he's going through. I can't communicate on his level because I'm not there with him, and I can't be. The depth of his sorrow is such that I don't know if anyone who isn't actively feeling the same kind of sorrow could even begin to understand what his life is like.

I have nothing left to offer but prayer to a God I don't understand.

Lord, have mercy.

He will most likely never read this, or know that this even exists, but I will use this opportunity to ask you, my few and longsuffering readers, to pray for my broken friend. Pray for mercy. His suffering is more than he can bear, and I can't even bear it with him.

Lord, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.