When anxiety won't let you rest tonight

If your mind is running and sleep won't come, you don't have to find the words. This is for that moment.

Hands resting over an open prayer journal in soft morning light

Anxiety doesn't wait for a good time. It finds you in the quiet, in the middle of the night, in the moment between trying to sleep and giving up on it. You may not even know what you're afraid of. That's okay.

This prayer is not a promise that it will stop tonight. It's a way to say: you are not in this alone, and there is somewhere to bring it.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV

A prayer for tonight

Lord, my mind is full tonight and I can't quiet it. I'm not asking you to fix everything right now. I'm asking you to be near. The verse says your peace will guard my heart, and I'm asking for that. Not the feeling first, but the reality of it. Stay with me in this. Amen.

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