A Prayer for the Strength to Keep Going

Father, I am running on the very last of what I have. Each day I keep showing up, doing the next thing, and no one seems to know how much it costs me just to stay upright. I am so tired of being this tired.

I confess there are mornings I do not know how I will make it to evening, and evenings I dread the morning. The depression makes ordinary effort feel enormous, and I am worn thin by carrying it quietly.

So I come to You, not with strength to offer but with my emptiness, asking You to be the strength I have run out of. I cannot manufacture more on my own.

I ask for grace to take only the next step, not the whole road. Help me set down what is not mine to carry today, and let me lean fully on You for what is. Where I need rest, give me permission to rest; where I need help, give me the courage to ask for it.

You promise that those who hope in You will renew their strength, that they will walk and not faint. I am asking for that renewal now, even one step of it.

I surrender my last reserves into Your hands and trust You to carry what I cannot. Hold me up when my own strength is gone. Amen.