I need a place to rest, to put my burdens down, to find strength and hope and the resolve to begin again. I\u2019m carrying so much baggage. It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I\u2019m so sick of feeling heavy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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\u2019t 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\u2019ve 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\u2019s what I desire more than anything right now. Please hear my cries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amen.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You can be grateful for life and still feel like you\u2019re carrying something that\u2019s slowly crushing you. If you\u2019re aching for a place to exhale, unclench, and set your burdens down, let this prayer be your soft landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52923609,"featured_media":1173248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"thoughtcatalog_call_to_action":"","tc_post_redirect":"","thoughtcatalog_is_sponsored_content":"0","footnotes":""},"categories":[603229949],"tags":[],"anchortext":[],"posttemplate":[],"adcampaign":[],"coauthors":[313988948],"class_list":["post-1173247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hugz.jpg","author_meta":null,"photo_credit":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52923609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173250,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173247\/revisions\/1173250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1173248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173247"},{"taxonomy":"anchortext","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/anchortext?post=1173247"},{"taxonomy":"posttemplate","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posttemplate?post=1173247"},{"taxonomy":"adcampaign","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adcampaign?post=1173247"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1173247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rebecca_simon_god_and_man-quotes2.jpg?w=850\")
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