A Prayer for Inner Peace

Father, there is a restlessness inside me that no quiet room seems to reach. Even when everything around me is calm, something within keeps stirring, like waves that will not lie down.

I confess I have gone looking for peace in all the wrong places, in being busy, in being liked, in getting everything just right. None of it stilled the deeper ache. I am tired of searching the surface for something that lives much deeper.

So I come to the only true source of stillness. You made the quiet places in me, and only You can fill them. Reach past my noise to the parts of me I cannot calm on my own, the corners I keep so busy that I never have to feel them.

Jesus, You said You leave Your peace with us, not the fragile kind the world hands out, but a peace that steadies from the inside. Plant that peace in the center of me.

I let go of the striving. I stop performing for a calm I cannot earn.

Be the steady ground beneath my restlessness, the quiet at my core, until being still with You feels like coming home. Amen.