God,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As this year comes to a close, I come to you honestly – aware of what this year asked of me and how deeply it challenged me. You saw the strength it required, the patience I had to learn, and the moments | held on when letting go felt impossible. Thank you for staying close through every high and low, even on the days I didn’t feel strong or faithful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tonight, I place in your hands what I am ready to release. The disappointments I still carry. The questions that never found answers. The versions of myself that existed only to survive. I trust that nothing I walked through was wasted, even if I don’t yet understand the purpose behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I step into a new year, I don’t ask for certainty or perfection. I ask for peace in my spirit and courage to move forward without fear. Help me enter what’s next, lighter than I was before – trusting you more, resisting less, and believing that good things can meet me without pain attached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I give you what’s ending, and I trust you with what’s coming<\/a>, God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This year asked a lot of us \u2014 more patience, more faith, more resilience than we realized we had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20459495,"featured_media":1179786,"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":[603230893],"class_list":["post-1179785","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\/prayer12.jpg","author_meta":null,"photo_credit":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179785","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\/20459495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179787,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179785\/revisions\/1179787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1179786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179785"},{"taxonomy":"anchortext","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/anchortext?post=1179785"},{"taxonomy":"posttemplate","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posttemplate?post=1179785"},{"taxonomy":"adcampaign","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adcampaign?post=1179785"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1179785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RebeccaSImonBooksLetGoTrustGodTrustingGodEveryDay.jpg?w=850\")
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