A Prayer for a Calm Mind Before Bed

Father, my body is in bed but my mind has not joined it. Thoughts keep arriving uninvited, tomorrow's list, an old conversation, a what-if I cannot shut off. I am exhausted and still spinning.

I confess I have let my mind run unchecked all day, and now it does not know how to stop. I keep feeding it screens and worries and wondering why it will not go quiet.

So I turn my thoughts toward You instead of letting them scatter. You are steady when my mind is not, and You can hold what I cannot organize.

Calm the racing in my head. Pull my scattered thoughts back to one quiet center. Where my mind reaches for fear, redirect it toward what is true and good and already settled in Your care.

Your word promises that You keep in perfect peace the one whose mind is fixed on You, the one who chooses to trust. So I fix my thoughts there now, on You, again and again.

I stop chasing every passing thought and rest my mind in You. Be the stillness my own head cannot manufacture. Quiet me, and let sleep come. Amen.