In Your Presence · One-Minute Companion

This is the one-minute slice of today's morning companion: a verse and a step. If it helps, there's a quiet door to the full day below.

“Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God. Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7
Today's step: ask, and give thanks before it even arrives

Pick one thing today you're gripping too tightly - a relationship, an outcome, a fear of losing what you have. Say it quietly, specifically: “Lord, I'm asking you for this, and I'm thanking you in advance, whatever the answer turns out to be.”

That sentence won't dissolve every worry at once. But it starts a movement the tenants never tried: the movement of an open hand.

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