And exhaustion makes complete sense

You pulled the cov­ers over your head, hop­ing the world and its com­pli­ca­tions might float away… if only for a few hours. It did­n’t work. It rarely does any­more. Some­where in the dark, between the inter­rup­tions and the inven­to­ry of every­thing tomor­row requires, you won­dered if God is still pay­ing atten­tion to your actu­al life.

The exhaus­tion you’re car­ry­ing isn’t a char­ac­ter flaw or a faith fail­ure; it’s the hon­est weight of a life that costs more than you antic­i­pat­ed. David did­n’t write the psalms from a place of suf­fi­cient sleep and man­aged expec­ta­tions. He wrote them com­plete­ly tired, sur­round­ed by ene­mies, undone. And some­how the Spir­it pre­served those prayers as Scrip­ture, which means your weari­ness is not out­side God’s vocab­u­lary (or plan).

You don’t need to per­form your way back to peace. You need to be found where you actu­al­ly are.

The guid­ed reflec­tion will take a few min­utes, but in return, you will be giv­en an excerpt from the book that pre­cise­ly address­es where you are, a truth to pon­der, and a prayer. The next steps, includ­ing whether to pro­vide an email address to receive Walk­ing in Lantern Light, is com­plete­ly up to you.

Pray

Try one of these breath prayers

Read

Run­ning on Emp­ty: Per­se­ver­ance for the Race You Did­n’t Sign Up For

Does God Real­ly Give You More Than You Can Han­dle?

Kept: Notes from a 100-Year Sea­son