Pressure.

Maybe you are feeling it as 2015 approaches.

It comes to each of us from different places in different ways. Sometimes from others and sometimes from within.

This day it came from both.

All day long, I had been making a point to turn my pressure to prayers, actually they were more like pleads, but the pulling down of my heart only seemed to grown.

As I crawled into bed late, the afternoon coffee was still in effective. Pulling out my phone, I realized I hadn’t read the Proverbs 31 devotion that day.

At 11:30 p.m. I read exactly what I needed:

“The key is not to try harder but to plug into the source.”

My soul immediately felt a relief. Yes, I am called to work hard, but I am first invited to be connected.

I wanted to connect with God, with His source of power and love, before I went to sleep. I found this prayer coming from my heart:

Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul give peace
And in the morning when I rise,
Fill me with joy as You light the skies,

Jesus, As I go to sleep, I give You my worries so I can rest & You can work.

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