You are sad? You're suffering? How to pray to God to ease your worries

Da David Sabbatini - August 4, 2021

Are you saddened by the difficulties you are facing right now?

Do you happen to have health problems that are costing you your happiness?

Have you lost someone close to you and it seems like you can't get over the pain?

Then you need to know this: God is with you! He has not abandoned you and is still busy healing wounded hearts and mending broken souls: "He heals the broken hearts and binds up their wounds" (Psalm 147: 3).

Just as he silenced the sea in Luke 8: 20-25, bring peace to your heart and take the weight of sadness off your soul.

Say this prayer:

“O Lord, slow me down!
Relieve my heartbeat
with the stillness of my mind.
Calm my hasty pace
With a vision of the eternal scope of time.

Give me,
Amid the confusions of my day,
The calm of the eternal hills.
Break the tensions in my nerves
With relaxing music
Of the singing streams
That live in my memory.

Help me to know
The magical power of sleep,
Teach me the art
To slow down
To look at a flower;
To chat with an old friend
Or to cultivate a new one;
To pet a dog;
To watch a spider build a web;
To smile at a child;
Or to read a few lines of a good book.

Remind me every day
That the race is not always won by the fast ones.

Let me look up
Among the branches of the towering oak. And know that he has grown big and strong because he has grown slowly and well.

Slow me down, Lord,
And inspire me to put my roots deep into the soil of the lasting values of life ”.