A Short Prayer To Ask God To Help You Stop Settling For Surface-Level Love
· Thought Catalog
Updated 3 hours ago, December 21, 2025
God, guard my heart from people who cannot honor it, even when letting them go is hard. Because sometimes the hardest part of growing, of healing, is realizing that not everyone is meant to go with you. Some people care in the ways they know how, but not in the ways your heart needs. Some can love you emotionally but not honor you consistently. And some were never meant to stay — they were meant to teach, to reveal, to awaken, and then to be released.
Letting go does not mean that you failed to love well. It means that you learned to love yourself, too. It means that you learned to stop negotiating with the bare minimum, to stop shrinking to avoid losing someone, to stop mistaking inconsistency for passion or confusion for chemistry. Honoring your heart means protecting it from places where it was never safe.
So God, if someone cannot meet me with honesty, with tenderness, with intention — help me to see it clearly. If someone’s presence costs me my peace, give me the courage to choose distance over attachment. If my loyalty blinds me to their patterns, open my eyes. And if my heart wants to hold on to someone who was never meant to hold me, gently give me the courage to let go.
Remind me that release is not rejection — it is redirection. Remind me that you never remove someone from my life without purpose. And remind me that the love you have prepared for me will not require me to beg, or to bend, or to break in order to receive it.
Protect my heart from what isn’t aligned.
Prepare it for what is.
And give me the wisdom to know the difference.
Amen.