Prayer for a friend

I just took a late night break from writing this week's sermon and read a Xanga entry of one of my used-to-be-members. (He left our church to explore others' but so far haven't settle down anywhere yet.) In his post, he wrote an R.I.P to his dear friend T.J. and at the end of the post, he identified T.J. as "Thanks Jesus". Is this a spiritual suicide note? I don't know, but I feel distress!

O God, please have mercy on our souls. We are young and naive. We thought that we are alive but we are dead; and mistook religious philosophy with spiritual life. Have mercy on us, and revive our life!