Rest Blessing by Kate Bowler

To finish out Season 3 of "Coping", Kevin leads you through a simple prayer for rest by Kate Bowler. We hope it comforts you every time you hear it.

Kevin: This blessing of rest is from author Kate Bowler:

Oh God, again, I lie here awake, too tired, too restless for sleep to come. How will I ever get through tomorrow? Oh God, bring peace to my mind and body, and blanket me in the heaviness of slumber. Blessed are we still awake in night's loud darkness who say, oh God, help me. You know the state I'm in. My mind is a runaway train and my body It's captive. You know all that troubles me. Take hold of me. Study the racing of my heart. Breathe fresh comfort through the whole of my being. Wrap me in the secure knowledge of your love. Remind me that tomorrow's worries can wait because tonight has enough of its own. Blessed are we who wait in the silence, who remember that darkness is not dark to you. Who pray, oh God, receive me. Gather me. Strengthen me. Sustain me. And free me to tell you everything. Bless our we who listen in the quiet. for you to breathe life into all that is spent and gone, filling mind and soul and body with hope, and the beauty of your peace that passes all understanding gentle as the dawn. Welcome one sweet thought. Follow it until it grows into genuine gratitude. Rest there. Amen.