This prayer by poet Rebecca Simon, writer of 111 Devotions, will assist begin December off best for you.
Lord, thank You for carrying me via one other month.
It’s solely by Your grace that I’m nonetheless right here, nonetheless standing, nonetheless changing into.
Your love is the regular factor that retains pulling me ahead.
And but, even surrounded by Your goodness, I nonetheless really feel the quiet locations inside me that ache.
I nonetheless discover myself wrestling with ideas I can’t all the time identify.
Lord, I confess—I overthink.
I fear about issues You by no means requested me to carry.
I plan too far forward in hopes of defending myself,
and I attempt to take management of items of my life that have been all the time meant to relaxation in Your fingers.
However You remind me—each single time—that nothing is simply too large for You.
You’ve made a method for me earlier than, and I belief that You’ll do it once more.
If You woke me up in the present day, it means there’s nonetheless goal inhaling me.
So assist me, God.
Fill my coronary heart with peace the place worry has lived too lengthy, with hope the place disappointment has tried to settle, and with braveness the place uncertainty whispers doubt.
I really like You, Lord.
Give me the power to share this prayer with no less than one different perso who may want the reminder that they aren’t strolling alone.