Some mornings you wake up already tired, not from today, but from replaying yesterday. The conversation you wish had gone differently. The mistake you haven’t given yourself grace for. The burden you thought would be gone by now.

In today’s prayer, Valarie names why we hang on: not because the pain is comfortable, but because it’s familiar, and familiar feels safer than the unknown. She pictures the burden as a boulder, something none of us can carry far no matter how strong we are, and reminds us that prayer is simply permission to put it down. Anchored in 1 Peter 5:7, “cast your anxiety on Him because He cares for you,” she prays for the honesty to release what we’ve carried too long and the trust to believe God’s mercies really are new every morning.

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Surrender the burden, it makes room for God’s peace. Keep meeting Him at the throne.

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