![]() ![]() Want a free short e-book of Prayers for Parenting that includes this Prayer for the Sleep-Deprived? Subscribe to the free Mothering Spirit newsletter here. Help me believe there is always enough love. Lend me charity when there is not enough clarity. If insecurity, the need for protection is your cause behind sleepless nights, you may use this Prayer to Help You Sleep better tonight. Grant me forgiveness when there is not enough patience. ![]() Give me peace when there is not enough rest. Here is a look at ten meaningful Catholic bedtime prayers for adults to add to your evening routine. Work is waiting. I will be tired again tonight.īut setting aside the moment’s complaints, I am deeply grateful for the bone-tired of my life. We have given ourselves, body and soul.Ĭhildren are stirring. We have given a fully faithful and perfectly human response. ![]() So if we are called, then we will grow tired along the way. I’m starting to think we’re Sabbath people who are tired, too. I see it all around me: parents with young kids, parents with teenagers, adult caregivers for aging parents, students working toward degrees, professionals caring for those they serve. So I ask for your heavenly hand to be on me tonight. Yet I know you have created me to stop, To switch off and be still. My mind is so active, it is difficult to settle. Dear Lord, Sometimes it's so hard to sleep well. Setting aside sleeplessness that’s stubborn or selfish, there’s a certain segment of sleep deprivation that cannot be removed. Lord, in our sleepless nights, You are there for us. Is tired simply supposed to spur me back to God, swap whatever burden I’m dragging for the lighter yoke? Perhaps.īut here’s where I get stuck. The weary words of the people wandering too long, the Psalmist stuck in the pit. Tired is the cry to God throughout Scripture. Since we’re supposed to be Sabbath people, am I failing by being tired? Maybe. (Which is hard when we stayed up till midnight and then woke at dawn. Trying to think theologically about tired. The contours of kids and work and home and every other devotion and demand to which I give my days and nights.Īfter a week where we tried to go to bed early every night – tried but got tied up with work again, caught up with chores again, tripped up by something hilarious online again – I’m hiding out during my children’s nap/rest time. Move on.īut tired is the plain fact of my life. Sometimes tired feels like an inner critic. Take better care of yourself! Go to bed earlier! Sometimes tired feels like a character flaw. This would probably be scientifically true if I did the math. My husband and I joke that we could sleep for a decade and still be sleep-deprived. This is the happy side effect of answered prayers and growing children. I’m tired of talking about how tired I am. I know I was tired before I had kids – tired from college, tired from grad school, tired from work. But since my first child was born, I have been weary to my bones. Oh God give us safety and security that banditry attacks and stealing and murdering may come to an end so we may live in a secure and safe country,” prayed the Nuncio.I am tired all the time. Shower oh heavens from above and let the skies rain down righteousness! Lord Almighty, creator of heaven and earth, give us safety, pour out water on the thirsty land and streams and dry grounds. If you are a current donor, log in to see the comment form otherwise please support our. A faithful and gracious Lord full of mercy makes it rain over the good and evil. To lighten our editing burden, only current donors are allowed to Sound Off. “The Good Lord should make it rain in the Diocese. He prayed to God to provide rains so as to bring to an end the suffering of the people in the regions where drought had caused the death of people and animals, malnutrition in children, starvation, and diseases. I have been having so much trouble sleeping for a long time now that I am always stressed and. Catholic faithful in traditional dress at the ordination in Maralal Diocese.Īrchbishop Megen noted with concern that some of these people who are largely pastoralists had lost their animals and sources of livelihood while searching for greener pastures for their flock. Heavenly Father, thank You for this night.
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