Prayer for hard days

When everything seems to go wrong at once: an honest prayer that does not pretend to be fine and asks for strength only for the next step.

Lord, today is hard. I will not pretend before you that everything is fine, because you already know it is not.

I am tired in a way that sleep does not fix. The things I hoped for did not come, and the things I feared did. I do not know how much more I can carry.

I do not ask you to solve everything now. I ask for strength for the next step — only that. I ask for breath to reach the evening. I ask that my faith not go out, even if it shrinks to an ember.

Remind me that you are near to those who have a broken heart. That I do not need to be strong to be loved by you. That your power is made perfect precisely in my weakness — this weakness of today.

Put someone in my path who does me good. And if I am that someone for another person, give me strength for that too.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow, you are with me. I choose to believe that today. Amen.

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