A Prayer for Emotional Rest
Emotional exhaustion can be harder to recognize than physical fatigue. This prayer is for those who have spent the day caring, listening, worrying, grieving, or carrying other people's needs.
Shepherd of my soul, I am emotionally tired. I have carried conversations, concerns, disappointments, and the needs of people I care about. Some of those burdens are mine to hold, and some are not. Restore my soul. Help me put down the responsibility to fix everyone. Teach me to care without absorbing every pain as my own. Heal the places where empathy has become exhaustion and where love has become pressure. Give me healthy limits without making me cold. Let me rest in the truth that You care for the people I cannot rescue and understand the things I cannot explain.
Amen.
Scripture: Psalm 23:2-3 Matthew 11:28-29