Today's Daily Lesson comes from John 17 verse 9:
"I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me . . ."
There is a saying about the dinner table which is proverbially about a lot more than just dinner: "I have more than I can say grace over."
We are called to pray at all times, but we cannot pray over everything. We are to bear each others' burdens, but we can't bear everyone's burdens all the time. To try leaves us overly worried and emotionally exhausted. Compassion fatigue is a real thing; it's the human being's natural defense against spiritual and emotional overload.
We don't have to pray for all the world, nor take on all its problems. Nor should we! We are to pray for and tend to only what has been given us -- in other words, what we can hold in our hands, at any one time.
Anything more than what we can say grace over really is more than we ought to have before us anyways.
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