Overwhelmed, Overcommitted, Please Pray

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I would greatly appreciate your prayers.
I have been recovering from an accident I had in work 7 weeks ago where floor gave way underneath me and I fell from a height. I was truly watched over by God as my injuries are minor but still giving me complaint.
I have finally been able to take a break from work to rest and recover but I have overcommitted to too many different things and feel such extreme pressure from people to fulfil things. I was meant to visit family this weekend and I was looking forward to the trip and then I remembered a friend’s birthday and another friend I committed to helping with her work project. I know I said I’d be there for all these people, my family included and I feel so sad to let people down.
Finally, I joined a choir as I love to sing and the songs for God made me feel so happy. I had to miss a rehearsal because of the accident and was told if I miss one more I would be excluded from our end of year concert. I have now realised that rehearsal is this weekend too even though we usually skip at public holidays. What was meant to be a positive experience just feels like another burden right now and they are so unfeeling which I didn’t expect from a Christian community. I don’t know what to do, I don’t feel I even have the courage to speak to people to let them down.
It sounds so minute compared to the problems of the world, but I think being injured and having just finished a tough job my defences are lower than normal. I want quiet time to reflect and pray and life keeps trying to get in the way.
I don’t know how to pray at the minute so I humbly ask you to pray for me, direct me to some prayers you find useful when modern stress gets in on top of you.
Lord, I know this too shall pass and I am thankful for your care of me the past few weeks. Please help me not to feel such pressure and to see beyond the challenges of our modern society and help me to be a good friend, choir member and relative.
Amen
 
Your last paragraph sounded perfect! (Lord, I know this too shall pass…)

I’ll add my prayers. Pax Christi.
 
Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.

– St. Teresa of Avila
 
Thank you both. Today was so trying and brought more complications, knowing you prayed for me brought me such comfort.

God bless
 
Thank you both. Today was so trying and brought more complications, knowing you prayed for me brought me such comfort.

God bless
 
Holy Mother, please wrap your loving arms around Susan and ask our Lord to heal her body, mind, and spirit. Amen.

Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy, hail, our life, our sweetness and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve: to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus, O merciful, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary! Amen.
 
REMEMBER, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, I fly to thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother; to thee do I come; before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen.
 
Susan, a wise prayerful woman once said to me,
“Only serve at the tables where God calls you to serve” not all those that others desire you to or that you feel obligated to serve at,
but may God guide you in which tables.

It’s hard sometimes for us to know…a priest I knew some years ago became ill and thin, and even fellow priests were telling him to leave the priesthood as “it is making me ill”.
Many times, he talked over the phone with me. “You are the only one who is supporting me to remain,” he said. My prayers and efforts seemed in vain until I wrote him a six page letter, with a lot of reality in it. Three weeks later, he phoned and said he’d read the letter several times, “And I’ve been able to re-commit myself to Christ, this time with realism. I was trying to do too much for God, when I needed to ‘let God’”…next time I saw him he seemed a different person, with happiness in his voice and light n his eyes. I hardly recognized him as the person I had come to know…

Shocking as your accident was, perhaps it is like his illness…a wake-up call from God, that He knows His daughter has only so much strength, and He doesn’t want you to wear yourself out any longer.
May God guide you.
 
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