• a prayer for gentleness

may my hands never forget how to be kind. may i meet the world with quietness instead of violence. may gentleness never be mistaken for weakness, but for strength made sacred.

• a prayer for solitude

let me not fear the silence, but live in it as if it were a cathedral. may i learn to hear myself when the world grows loud. may solitude become my teacher, not my punishment.

• a prayer for memory

keep alive the faces and voices i have loved, even if time wants to erase them. let memory be both wound and balm, teaching me where i come from, and where i must return.

• a prayer for resilience

when i bend, let me bend without breaking. when i break, let me be remade into something truer. grant me the courage to endure, not through hardness, but through patience.