Words for the days you have none

Prayers

3 prayers · with the passages they rest on

Some days the hardest part of praying is finding the first sentence. These pages offer one: a prayer for a specific weight — worry that will not settle, strength that has run out, a guilt that will not lift — written plainly enough to pray as it stands, or to start from and make your own.

A prayer can ask for things Scripture never promised, so each one here sets out the passages it leans on and what they actually say. They are quoted in full, in the English Standard Version and the King James Version, so you can see for yourself that the prayer is asking for what the text offers and nothing it does not.

Pray them slowly. Change the words. The point was never the phrasing.