When we pray for comfort for someone, we pray specific prayers whenever possible. “Please, Lord, comfort Mary” is okay, but what kind of comfort is Mary asking for? When possible, we ask her what comfort she hopes to receive from the Lord. Comfort might mean simply that the storm of suffering would lessen, or it might mean that the suffering would be increasingly outweighed by the knowledge of Christ and what we have in him (2 Cor. 4:16)—or both.
