| In my Own Your Identity coaching course, we identify our longings. While doing this, a participant crafted this prayer to lift to God—a prayer for masculine belonging and gave me permission to share it with you. I pray it will be a blessing and perhaps give words to longings of your own. It did for me. Jesus, You see me. You know the ache inside me today—this deep, honest longing for masculine attention, affirmation, and the kind of belonging that speaks to my core. I long to be seen as strong. As capable. As desirable. As masculine. I long to be initiated—to be called up and called in by other men who know who they are and can help me become more of who I am. Not more striving. Not more shame. A brotherhood that speaks identity. That stirs joy. That challenges and heals. I don’t want to keep walking alone. I don’t want substitutes—churchy noise, polite distance, or people who only see one part of me. I want brothers. I want men who will go with me into laughter and into sorrow, into risk and into restoration. Men who see me and still stay. Men who want to grow in hearing Your voice too. God, this longing isn’t a mistake. It’s not too much. Help me to bless it—this holy ache in my chest. Let it draw me closer to You, even as I keep hoping for more connection here on earth. Show me where to look. Open doors I couldn’t imagine. And as I wait, help me feel Your nearness in the ache itself. And Lord, let Your voice be the first to name me: Strong. Seen. Desired. Yours. Your friend, Philip |
A Prayer for Masculine Belonging
