Rest

Lord,

Please teach me to sleep and to make time for it.  Thank you for building into my design that I get blurry eyed when I absolutely must sleep.  I'd rather that than to have health problems from not sleeping.

Teach me to see the signs through my stubborn pride that I must take time for rest.  I do not have the answers.  I cannot always make up for things by staying up a few extra hours, working a few extra hours, etc.

Help me to recognize and acknowledge when the answer is to cut things out of my life that don't lead me to You rather than trying to fit everything in just because I'm attached to unnecessary things. Help me to see that it is only in embracing You that I will find fulfillment.  Everything else is clutter.

Amen

Fatigue

Lord,

Please help me to look to You when it seems that darkness surrounds me and is waiting to crush me.

Let me see that you are there, waiting for me to reach out to You so that You can pull me through the darkness into light and comfort. 

Lord,

Help me to open my eyes today.  I need to open them not only to see You, but simply to open them.  As my body is feeling fatigue even before I rise for the day, help me to rub the sleep from them and wake. 

Amen

False Weariness

Lord,

Please help my body to be calm, even as there is movement all around me.  And, if it be Your will that my body not be calm and continue jerking, them give me the patience, focus, and mental and physical stamina to function.

Let me see your Light, especially when I am tempted to see only the darkness around me.

Help me to have steady hands when the time is right for steady hands.

Lord,

Help me to stay awake today and to do your work.  Help me to see You all around me so that I am not tempted to focus on myself when I should be focused on doing your work for others.

Help me to look for You even when I don't immediately see You.

Help me to be your humble servant, Lord, for I am always so very tempted to be my own servant.  Sometimes I feel battered when I serve You.  Help me to see that this is nothing more than a temptation to turn from you and not true weariness.  It is an illusion that I must see for what it is.

Thank you for this day, my Lord and my God, lover of my soul.

Amen

Distraction

Dear Lord,

Please help me to sleep even though I still see your colors everywhere.  I'm seeing your colors to the point of distraction.

Help me to see what I am supposed to see and then reflect upon seeing You in others.

Lord, 

Help me to always point to You, even when my knee-jerk reaction is to think that You are stripping me bare. 

Sometimes life seems like it doesn't make sense, but I need You to remind me that I must always point to You.

Amen

Sleep

Lord,

I pray for sleep.

Let me rest my body, rest my spirit, and rest my soul.  All in You and in the comfort of your presence.

Amen

Awake

Lord,

I am tired today.  Help me to become awake.  

Help me to stay awake. 

Help me to be more than awake but to function today and function well!

Help me to have the good sense to come home at a reasonable time from my day's work so that I can go to bed early.

Ok, I'm still waking up.  I'll repeat myself, not because You didn't hear but because I have a thick skull.  Help me, Lord, to have the good sense to go to bed early tonight so that I am not tired tomorrow!

Now that I have the correct celestial body in my brain...

Amen!