How to Pray When You’re Overwhelmed: 5 Ways to Find Peace (+ Free Pocket Prayers)

I hear an analyst say this week that the question she is getting most these days is, “Are we going to be okay?”  Are we going to be okay next week, next month, next year, are we going to be okay no matter what happens, are we going to be okay to be neighbours and communities and all fellow members of the family of humanity and how do we pray to be okay through days like these?  I lean in toward a mother who tells me this week that her 12-year-old son’s asking her why bother to pray when God already knows everything, rules over everything, decides everything? I’m standing beside a young woman in a cafe on one on of the last warm nights of October when she takes this call, cups her mouth in her hand as she shakes her head in wide-eyed disbelief, over and over again. She will stammer it out to me afterward: A woman in her circle, who hasn’t been a mama more than a handful of days, just died by postpartum depression. Her baby is only handful of days old. I ask for their names so I can pray, because there are real […]