image
image
saveme.jpg Dear God, I feel weird, maybe its called guilt. My parents have on-going problems and are constantly at each other when I was younger. The thing is I didnt care. I just wanted them both to not wake up the next morning. I played them against each other and I did something terrible. Probably the worst thing I could ever do to them. I was in year 8 going onto year 9 in New Zealand. I was enrolled to go to an all girls school, Marist college but i didnt want too. I kept crying and begging her that I wanted to go to avondale college like the rest of my friends. I thought that she was just doing this to me because her life was miserable. I was desperate so I blackmailed my father in to convinving my mother to enrol me in to the school I wanted. I was only thirteen years old and i told him that he had until the next day to convince my mum or else I will tell her that he cheated on her….for the third time. It worked and I was so happy. I hated my parents and i didnt care. I was happy and they were miserable, now five years on I cant seem to be happy and cant shake the feelings of lonliness. I moved to Australia a few weeks into starting at my dream school. Now i hate myself- while at the same time hating my parents. Please god help me. TC Aplen - Queensland/Australia
womanatdoor1.jpg

Dear God,

I hate myself for doing wrongs all the time. We’ve been together for so long, countless years, yet I still seek the company of other women and end up with one night stands all the time. God, can you find it in your heart to forgive me? Can you find a way for me to repent? God, I hope you are hearing. Broken Boy, Singapore
couple.jpg

Dear God,

I had an affair with my married boss. I knew it was wrong, I really did. So many factors went into my reason to commit such a sin. None of them good reasons, I see that now. My problem is the way he treats me now, now that’s it over. Like it never happened and that he hates me. I have always looked up to him in so many ways, I know God that that sounds weird, he did have an affair on his wife (whom I know and have grown to love and respect ), but i am just as wrong as he is. Even though it was a sinful relationship, we loved each other. It ended because he, we, did not want to live the lies anymore. But I still love and respect him and miss him and his company. I would never do this again, Lord, I promise you. Please help me understand why he is being so mean and hurtful to me. Help him understand that I am hurting, he is and always has been a little on the rough side. But i saw another side of him.How can he treat me this way? Is it because i remind him of all the wrong things he has done? Why do i feel like i am the only one hurting here? Like I am the only sinful person? I have let go of the relationship part, but he always said he would love me and would always be there for me,a friend. Now he cant even look at me, honestly,he cant and doesn’t. I feel so ashamed,alone and icky. Please let him know and realize that we once really cared for each other and i am still me. Let him miss me a little and give him a dose of hurt to while your at it. Please forgive me, and him. And please let that old man know that he lost a good friend and lots of respect. Feeling Crappy, Orange County, California/USA 
blackfeathers.jpg Dear God, Why do I have to be this person? The good girl all the time? In the end it’s sad, but true: nobody gives a damn! Right, you may be asking Yourself “what´s up with you? You have a great home, great education, good looking, family, love…” Yeah, I do have all those stuff and just found the love of my life and for a long time off my life I thought I would never suffer…well, guess what? My beloved parents turned their back to me when I came out as a lesbian, them I found out my dad is gay. GREAT. Then, they got divorced and my mother became the bad-guy of my “great” life, my friends turn out to be snakes and my beloved girlfriend it´s sucking me down and I just can´t help being such an ass and still be next to her, to them. Like an ice cream, You see? Starts cool but melts after all and still stays there. Why , God? Why can´t I just be cynic, cold, bad and fearless like everybody?! I mean, come on!!!!! GIVE me the will to be the bad one!!!!!!!

Please, I just can´t take it anymore…

Ilaria - Italy
1167003443_l4.jpg

Dear God, or anyone that can hear me.

I want to forgive him, I do. But what he did to me is just far to hard. I don’t think i will ever be able to forgive him. It feels like it would be sort of like trying to forgive someone after they have already killed you. He has taken my life away, i just hope I will be able to overcome this obstacle. It seems hard, because I don’t really believe in God. If God was real, why would he put me through this. It has truly traumatized me, and even 3 years later, I still cant get over it. It has been changing the way i see myself ever since it happened. I just wish that somehow i could forget about it, because I cant forgive him. The worst part? He’s my big brother. He’s supposed to be there for me.. isn’t he?

Andrea - Canada

drunk.jpg

Dear God,

I made a horrible mistake. I asked you to help me get over an ex that I’m still in love with, that broke my heart. Well I didn’t get over him but I have been spending time away from hm and it’s been great. The only problem is that I recently starting hanging out with his brother and we slept together. It was a drunken mistake and I really feel horrible about the entire thing.

I wanted to tell the ex but I figured that I should let his brother do that. The brother doesn’t want to tell him now but I can’t live with this. It’s all I can think about and this sounds stupid but I’m really not this kind of person. I know that I’m the one that screwed up and that I need to deal with it but a little help would be greatly appreciated. I just don’t want this terrible mistake to ruin my ex’s relationship with his brother and if my ex and I could come out of all this as friends that would be great too, but I wouldn’t want ask for too much. Truthfully more than anything else I just want them to be okay and I want to get through this.

Thanks for everything. Betsy, Virginia/USA
610510_143997_1bd4d08176_p.jpg

Dear God,

I am sorry for the mistakes I have made in my life and continue to make. 8 years ago I was kidnapped and raped, while I was 5 months pregnant. By the grace of God, yes I know you were there, I heard you, we lived. My daughter and I lived. You gave me life, twice. Not everyone gets a second chance. I did. I should have changed my life but I continue to make awful choices and I am seeing and living with the results. I beg of your forgiveness. Leslie Coleman, Costa Mesa, California/USA
1182954202_image2_h600xw900.jpg Dear God, What is it about me? Why did you let that man force himself upon me when i was 7? Why did you let my mom marry an abusive alcoholic man that became my stepfather? Why did you give my aunt cancer and take her away from me? Why am I in the middle of my family fighting again? Why is it that as soon as I feel good about coming out to the world as a bisexual, you take the one that I love away from me? Why are you against me being happy? Why does everything happen to me? Why?

Sandra, Indiana/USA

despair

Dear God,

I feel like I am in a permanent state of sadness and despair. Living is a daily painful ordeal, every night I go to bed wishing that I wont wake up the next morning.

Ayesha, South Africa

abortion Dear God, dear devine universe, dear my unborn daughter, I know that you are all one. You have been with me for the past eight weeks, yet I know that we’ve been together through eternity. But we will have to say goodbyes to each other tomorrow morning, at least for time being in this physical world. I know you understand the situation & I felt your forgiveness. For a little while, I experienced the rest of my life with you. Watching you grow .. turning into a beautiful woman. But my current situation is very difficult. I wish that things were different & I could have in my life. But for now, it’s on hold I guess. I hope we come across in each other’s way again one day. And have you join the rest of our family, including your father and your two brothers. I feel your love, beauty & light. And I am so sorry that I have to do this to us tomorrow. I will always be with you no matter what. Love Mom, California/USA
porn

Dear God,

I am sorry for watching porn. I really am.

This is just something that is really hard for me to give up right now.

Please don’t stop loving me. I don’t want to be punished anymore. My family and I can’t take it.

Cat Von D, Chicago/USA

skinny girl

Dear God,

Something isn’t right. I always feel so close to just passing out or just lashing out at people around me. I’m exhausted. This is too much for me. It’s a very unstable balance. My life is held together by tiny threads. Every day is the same. I get up at 5:30am. I drink a diet coke and go to school. I go to class and try to stay awake until 12:30. Then I eat a piece of string cheese, 3 crackers, and another diet coke. I leave school and go to rehearsal for 3 hours. I come home and run a mile or two on my treadmill. Then I do homework as late as it takes. Usually I’m in bed around 1am. If anything is thrown off— if I get 3 hours of sleep instead of 4— if I forget my diet coke, I fall apart. I passed out at school once because I didn’t have enough sleep/caffeine. The weight isn’t entirely gone. I’m 40 pounds thinner than I was, but I’m still not skin and bones. And there is no one that will realize I’m not healthy. The physical stuff isn’t nearly as bad as what’s going on with me emotionally. I will always resent my parents for not noticing how unhealthy I am. They ask me what’s wrong or why I look so anxious. They forget that I’ve struggled with an anxiety disorder my entire life. They forget that I’m obsessive compulsive. There is nothing worse than having those closest to you forget or ignore something like that. They ask me, why do you have to do that in sets of 7? Because I’m fucking obsessive compulsive. I have been my whole life. You took me to the doctor when I was four because I wouldn’t leave the grocery store until I had walked down each isle 7 times. You still ask why I do things 7 times. Are you my mother or a fucking stranger? Jesus fucking christ. I can’t take this much longer. I’m so sick of no one noticing that I don’t eat or that I am having a nervous collapse. They think I’m fine because I’m always with friends and because I’m thin and they think that means everything is not good. I am falling apart. I am begging my mother to notice. She never will. Even if I tell her, I’m not OK, I need help, she says, “i don’t know what to do,” I love her, but I will always resent her for letting me live with these issues and not doing shit to help me. Teressa, Los Angeles/USA
boxer

Dear God.

I am a short, weak-looking woman. But I once assaulted a young teen- aged boy who threw an apple at my car. I drove down an alley after him really fast, stopped and jumped out and chased him down. I cornered him in by a fence and pushed him down. I kicked him a few times in the abdomen and arm while he was down. Then I got in my car and drove away. I was a wreck about it for months. It spurred me to go to counseling for my “anger” but I never did tell the counselor this story. The shoes I wore that day, I had to throw them out soon after-I couldn’t look at them. At the time, it didn’t seem that I hurt him very much (He got right up). But I sometimes imagine that maybe it was worse than I remember. I think of that movie “Short Cuts” where the little boy died after Lilly Tomlin hit him with her car and she goes on with her life oblivious…I wonder where that kid is now. This is the only secret I keep from my husband. It is the only thing in my life I am ashamed of.

Lyn, Brooklyn,NYC/USA

abortion

Dear God,

My girlfriend had an abortion last month. We talked about it, cried over it and came to a conclusion that its best we lose it. She was devastated after the ordeal as she felt she had lost a little part of herself during this incident. We are both young, desperately searching for better things in life. I am not financially stable or mentally ready to have a kid yet. I was told no one is ever ready. She knows i don’t want a kid yet, and she aborted it cos’ she loves me. She very much wanted the child but realized realistically we can never have one right now. Repercussions are severe. Everything reminded us about the abortion. Contrary to popular belief, men suffer from this as well. The guilt and frustration stemmed from this incident bores no limit. I couldn’t find strength to go to work everyday. I am mentally strained knowing that it happened because i am selfish.I am not able to make love to her nowadays due to this. Its just not the same anymore. Maybe its the stress, maybe work is wearing me down. I don’t know. She told me she couldn’t continue with me because seeing me reminds her of all the pain and hurt she had to go through.I sometimes feel its best if I can just vanish from this country, away from everyone I know and start afresh. I know fleeing seems tempting but i still stand here with my responsibility towards her.So dear God, can you give me the courage to forgive myself, be a better man and move on?

Ritcher, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Men

Dear God,

I don’t know where to start. This is so hard for me to say that I have never told another living soul. First, let me say that I’m a married man and that I have a wife and three children I love very much. Sometimes when I think how much I love them I wonder how it is that I do what I do. I’ve lied to myself so long about this there seems no point in lying to you, so I’ll just say it – I go to public toilets and have sex with men. It started seven years ago after my promotion. Since then I have gone almost every day and sometimes twice a day to a toilet near the base but sometimes I go to local park. I’ve tried to stop through willpower but I can’t. I have to admit that the excitement of it is too much to resist. I find everything about the experience a total turn on, from the anonymity to the danger and even the smell. I need to say that I’m straight. I am, I know that and I could never have a relationship with a man. I also know that I’m risking everything. I could be arrested or blackmailed and I worry all the time about AIDS. Why do I do this? Do I hate myself? I can’t see a psychologist. I can’t talk about this with anyone. Please, dear God, show me a way out of this.

Jim, San Diego

Dear God is a global project for people around the world to share their innermost hopes - and fears - through prayer.

It doesn’t matter what your version of God is…Jesus, Allah, Buddha or simply a spiritual universal energy… praying to a higher power soothes and heals. It’s scientifically proven that people who pray are healthier, happier and more resilient.

Share your prayers here and help us create hope one prayer at a time. Simply send us your personal letter to your God and/or a picture that sums up your message visually. (Dear God will source a picture if you don’t have one).

Disclaimer: This website is totally independent and non-denominational. We are not a religious or spiritual/new-age organization. We have no affiliation or relationship to any church or religious or spiritual group or organization.

image