Prayer for February 18, 2022

Thank you God, for respite. I don’t often sleep in, and for some reason you helped me do that today. It is a blessing when our mind and bodies take over and force us to rest. May we recognize that those are signs that we have stressed ourselves too much and take the waking time we need to get away. Give us the strength to say no to all the outside forces and expectations and do something for ourselves today. May we have the capacity to do that more often than when we are exhausted and use that time for building ourselves up so that we can be who you would have us be. All this we ask in the name of a God who has equipped us to be more than we can ask our imagine. Amen