A prayer when worry will not let go

Master of the World, the worry will not leave me. It does not arrive all at once like fear. It is quiet and constant, it sits with me in the morning, rides with me in the car, and waits for me at night when I try to fall asleep. What will happen with the money, what will happen with the children, what will happen if.

I try to plan everything in advance, to think of every possibility, as though if I worry enough I could prevent what has not yet happened. And I know it does not work. Worry takes today from me to pay for a tomorrow that may not come the way I imagine.

Help me tell apart what is in my hands from what is in Yours. What is in my hands, let me do calmly and responsibly: check, ask, plan in measure. And what is not in my hands, let me truly entrust to You, and not only in words.

And let me talk about the worries with someone close to me, instead of keeping them inside until they grow.

Let me live today. Notice the people beside me, the food I eat, this moment. And every time my thinking returns to the old circle, let me stop and tell myself: this I have already handed over to Him.

And let me sleep at night in peace, without going over the calculations in my head again and again. What will be tomorrow will be in Your hands, and whatever comes I will meet when it comes, with the strength You will give me then.