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Prayers for a Daughter’s Well-Being: Her Mind, Health, Safety and Faith

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Summary

  • The 1928 Book of Common Prayer has a family prayer “For Those in Mental Darkness,” which asks God to restore “strength of mind and cheerfulness of spirit.”
  • Short prayers cover a daughter who is anxious, depressed or in treatment; one who is ill, recovering, traveling or far from home; and a daughter at every stage from birth to marriage and motherhood.
  • If a daughter talks about ending her life, 988 in the US takes calls and texts from people worried about someone else; Samaritans answer free on 116 123 in the UK and Ireland.
  • Traditional blessings include the priestly blessing of Numbers 6:24–26, the 1928 Prayer Book’s prayer “For a Birthday” and a parents’ prayer from the Catholic Manual of Prayers of 1888.
  • Jairus (Mark 5) and a Canaanite woman (Matthew 15) both asked Jesus to heal a daughter, and both daughters were healed.

A short prayer for your daughter: “Lord, [name] is your child before she is mine. Keep her safe today, in body and in mind. Hold her close to you, give her wisdom in every choice she makes, and bring her home to us in peace. Amen.” Prayers for a daughter’s mental health Among the family prayers in the Episcopal Church’s 1928 Book of Common Prayer is one “For Those in Mental Darkness,” asking God to restore “strength of mind and…

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Bibliography (Click to show)
  • Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Numbers 6:23–26; Psalm 34:18; 46:1; 91:11; 139:14; Proverbs 27:17; 31:30; Isaiah 54:13; Matthew 15:21–28; Mark 5:22–23, 35–36, 41–42; Luke 2:52; 1 Corinthians 13:13; Colossians 3:23; 2 Timothy 1:7; James 1:5). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
  • The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928, as printed by D. B. Updike, 1930. Prayers, “For a Sick Child,” p. 45; Family Prayer, “For Those We Love,” p. 597, “For a Birthday,” pp. 597–598, and “For Those in Mental Darkness,” p. 598. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
  • A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. “Prayers of Parents, for themselves and for their Children,” pp. 172–173. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
  • Serfes, Nektarios, Archimandrite, comp. Akathist to the Mother of God, Nurturer of Children, with “A Prayerful Sighing of Parents for Their Children.” https://www.st-philip.net/files/Resources/Akathist-to-the-Mother-of-God-Nurturer-of-Children.pdf
  • 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. “Help Someone Else.” https://988lifeline.org/help-someone-else/
  • Samaritans. “Contact Us.” https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/

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