Why are you still tired after you slept?

You slept eight hours and woke up just as hollow. The body rested but something deeper did not. That kind of tired has nothing to do with sleep. It comes from carrying things too heavy for one person, worry, disappointment, the weight of trying to hold a life together with both hands. You know the feeling. God knows it too, and here is what he says into it:

"He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength."

- Isaiah 40:29 (KJV)

Before your next meal today, sit down for three minutes, put your phone face-down, and say out loud: 'I am tired and I cannot fix this alone.' That small honest moment is not weakness. It is the door. Let it open.

What is one weight you have been carrying alone that you have never put into words?

God, I am tired in a way sleep cannot touch. I bring you the weight I cannot name. Fill the places in me that are running on empty. I need strength that does not come from me. Amen.