A Short Prayer To Ask God For Refuge When Life Feels Too Loud
· Thought Catalog
Updated 3 hours ago, December 20, 2025
You can be grateful for life and still feel like you’re carrying something that’s slowly crushing you. If you’re aching for a place to exhale, unclench, and set your burdens down, let this prayer be your soft landing.
Dear God, give me shelter.
I need a place to rest, to put my burdens down, to find strength and hope and the resolve to begin again. I’m carrying so much baggage. It’s weighing me down, making me feel like no matter what I do or where I go, I will forever have to toss it over my shoulders.
But I’m so sick of feeling heavy.
I want to feel freedom. I want to feel weightless. I want to feel the beauty of starting over, starting new. God, please help me to seek you. Remind me that I don’t have to carry all of this alone. Remind me that when I turn to you, and away from the things of this world, you will remove all of the ache, the weight, and the pain that I’ve convinced myself I deserve. You will cleanse my spirit, refresh my soul, and give me a place to rest before I begin again. Father, that’s what I desire more than anything right now. Please hear my cries.
Amen.