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Bad Day Prayer

By: Erin 

God sometimes my burden seems too big to bear

God sometimes my life seems too long to continue to live

God sometimes my pain seems too persuasive to persist

Those are my bad days

Those are the days when I need your Son the most

I need your Son to share my burden, my life, and my pain

I need your Son to remind me that it’s not about me

It’s not about my burden

It’s not about my life

and

It’s not about my pain

For on my bad days when I focus on You

I see the bigger picture

I see the goal to expand your kingdom and make this world new

But even with that sight I cannot ignore the pain

Pretending gets me nowhere

Except caught in more chains

So God my prayer for today and for all my bad days to come

Help me to focus on your one and only son

Perfect is something I will never become

But mold me, shape me, turn me and make me so that your work may be done

And finally God it is my truest hope

 on the days when I don’t feel it

on the days when I don’t see it

on the days when I don’t understand it

I can read these simple words

Turn my face to You

And say to myself

“God I give today to You”

Amen