When You Keep Changing Yourself to Be Loved

This prayer is for the person who has spent too much time becoming smaller, quieter and easier — hoping that one day they would finally be enough for the people they loved. You were never meant to spend your life auditioning for love. Healthy love does not ask you to abandon yourself. You do not have to change who you are to deserve to be chosen. In this prayer we breathe together, release the pressure to become what others want, and ask God to restore the parts of us we lost trying to fit ...