a prayer for someone with a prayer like mine

Only you will understand my sadness and my hope. You know the recesses of my heart; know that my heart is breaking from loneliness. I desperately need someone to care deeply about me and to let me care as much for her. I do have friends and family but it is not the same as romantic love. Sometimes I am envious of couples walking hand in hand and enjoy themselves. I, too, want a moment with someone to share that joy. Confession is surely good for the soul. Indeed, even as I pray, Lord, You are helping me to see the bigger picture. In that bigger and larger vision, You show me that romance after all ends in sorrow, not happiness ever after. I begin to appreciate how You have sheltered me from hurts that maybe worse than my loneliness. I can see that those whom I have envied have their own burdens different from and perhaps, heavier. Even in my hunger for a romantic glance, a loving touch, I feel you healing me in thought. You are telling me to search less for a dreamy romance and more for the real people who need my concern. You are teaching me to lose my loneliness in the loneliness of others, especially those who are neglected by the world’s romantic pursuit of happiness. I accept Your call to a higher love, but never forget my prayer, please Lord, I will always need that one companion that I can call mine alone. If it is Your will, let it be someone who is praying now a prayer like mine.