A Prayer for Peace When Everything Feels Out of Control

Father, it feels like everything is happening at once and none of it is in my hands. The pieces are falling faster than I can catch them, and my chest is tight with the helplessness of watching it all spin.

I confess I have exhausted myself trying to grab every falling piece, as if holding it all together were my job alone. The illusion that I could control this has finally cracked, and I am tired.

So I open my clenched hands to You, the One who actually does hold all things together. I cannot manage this. But I do not have to, because You never lost Your grip for a second.

Your Word says in You all things hold together, that nothing is spinning loose in Your universe. The chaos I feel is not the truth about who is in charge. You are.

I surrender the controls I was never really holding. I trust the One who is.

Steady me in the middle of what I cannot manage, and let my white-knuckle grip relax into the rest of knowing You have already got this. Amen.