🙏 Meet me in this fragile stillness

God,

tonight I come to You through the thin places —

the places where my strength frays,

where my breath trembles,

where my heart feels both full and hollow at once.

I have carried so much today.

The weight of survival.

The ache of wanting to offer light while barely holding my own flame.

The quiet guilt of feeling incomplete,

even though I have given everything I have.

But here, in this small room,

I feel You leaning close.

Not with thunder,

but with a warmth that gathers in the cracks.

Meet me in this fragile stillness.

Wrap Your presence around the parts of me that feel undone.

Let Your breath move through the places I cannot reach,

the places I hide even from myself.

Bless my sons with rest deeper than dreams.

Bless me with a peace that does not depend on circumstance.

Let this night be a quiet altar

where You remind me that I am held,

I am guided,

I am not forgotten.

Stay with me, God.

In the thinness.

In the tenderness.

In the trembling.

In the flame that refuses to go out.

Amen