A Prayer to Let Go and Trust God

For the Woman Who’s Tired of Carrying What Was Never Hers, and Ready to Fall into the Arms of the One Who Never Drops Her

Father,

I come before You—not polished, not perfect, but honest.
My hands are tired from gripping what I should’ve let go of long ago.
I’ve been holding it all together—smiling while silently crumbling.
Trying to be everything for everybody, while feeling like nothing for myself.

I’ve carried burdens that were never mine to hold.
Responsibilities that wear me down.
Stories that didn’t begin with me, but somehow I made them mine.
I held on out of fear of what would happen if I didn’t.
Out of habit.
Out of love.
But not out of trust in You.

So today, I choose surrender.
I choose to loosen my grip.
I lay down every false assignment I picked up in survival mode.
I lay down the pressure to fix everyone and everything.
I lay down the expectations I was never meant to fulfill.

God, teach me how to breathe again.
How to live without constantly scanning for what could go wrong.
How to love without losing myself.
How to walk in freedom, not fear.

I give You the outcome.
I give You the timeline.
I give You the apology I never got.
I give You the people I couldn’t save.
I give You my heart—even the bruised, guarded parts I tried to protect from You.

Help me to trust that I’m not behind.
Help me to trust that rest is not laziness, but obedience.
Help me to trust that You’re not just watching—but working.
Even when I don’t see it.

Make my heart light again.
Not because the chaos is gone—but because I finally handed it to You.
I no longer need to have all the answers.
I just need to know that You’ve got me.
And You do.

I trust You with the pain.
I trust You with the process.
I trust You with the healing.
And most of all—I trust You with me.

In Jesus’ name,
Amen.