Prayer for teens

Father, I keep wanting people to feel sorry for me, even when nothing very serious is going on. You promised me real hope, and I keep ignoring it. I have a roof, food, a family that mostly tries, a body that mostly works, and friends who mostly show up. Everything not being perfect is not the same as being the most overwhelmed person in my group chat. Take the need to be felt sorry for. I do not have to invent suffering to be allowed to be tired. Help me be honest about what is actually hard and skip the dramatic version. Tomorrow when someone asks how I am, I will say something true instead of pretending everything is worse than it is. Amen.