Prayer for Today

A first-person prayer for the night you are carrying something heavy and cannot think of one person to hand it to. Ask God to open your eyes to the help already standing around you.

The backpack has been by the front door since Thursday. A prayer for the moment you have to hand somebody you love over to a road you cannot walk down with them.

A prayer for the morning your body is not doing what you need it to do. Honest words for pain, waiting rooms, test results and the fear that shows up at 2am.

You checked your phone again before your feet hit the floor. Pray this out loud today, for the person you love and for the tired part of you that keeps holding them up.

You know the parking lot. You know the door. You have been there before and it did not go well, and today you have to go back. Pray this before you walk in.

A prayer for the stretch of hours before you know. For the test result, the interview, the letter that has not arrived yet, and the fear that fills the gap while you wait.

A prayer for the start of a week you do not feel ready for, with a scripture from Psalm 90, four short prayers for the hard moments of a Monday, and one question to carry through the day.

A prayer for the person everyone leans on. God met Elijah in his exhaustion with food and rest before He asked anything else of him, and He meets you the same way.

A prayer for the end of a week that did not go the way you planned, with Psalm 138:8, four short prayers for the moments the week left behind, and one question to sit with today.

A prayer for a mind that will not stop running, with a scripture to pray alongside it and four short prayers for the moments your thoughts turn.