Prayer Request

A reader writes:

I want to let you know how much I enjoy reading your blog.

It really encourages me and reminds me that the Lord answers our prayers.

I wanted to write you and ask you to keep someone in yours.
He is my ex-boyfriend and I had to end the relationship because it was a really unhealthy one.
He is a person that God gave many gifts and talents but he is broken and struggles with depression and anxiety and uses alcohol and drugs to deal with it.
He doesn’t have any kind of a relationship with God, and though I brought him to mass and encouraged him to pray, it doesn’t seem I’ve changed that at all.
I love him very much and the thought of him spending his life miserable and in denial is very painful to me.
Please lift him up in your prayers. (And me too?) I’ve been trying to do the right and discern God’s will for us and this has been a really difficult situation.
I truly appreciate it.

Father, we ask that you would reveal yourself to this man and lift him up out of the snares of addiction and depression and into the light, joy, and peace of Christ. We ask that you would grace, strength, peace and consolation to your daughter and do all these things to the glory of your Name through Christ our Lord. Mother Mary, pray for them. Amen!