Prayers for Mental Health
A Prayer Before a Difficult Day
A contemporary pastoral prayer for anticipatory anxiety — the dread that arrives before an exam, a diagnosis, a court date, or a hard conversation.
Lord, I know what is coming today and I am dreading it.
Go before me into that room, that conversation, that appointment.
Steady my hands and my voice.
Give me words that are true and kind, and the wisdom to stop talking.
If it goes badly, let me not spiral.
If it goes well, let me not take the credit that is yours.
Whatever happens, bring me home to you at the end of it. Amen.
Contemporary pastoral prayer
About the prayer
It echoes the ancient practice of the morning offering, placing the day's hardest hour in God's hands before it begins.
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