Bedtime Prayer: Please Protect The People I Love

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Bedtime Prayer: Please Protect The People I Love

by Patrick Lynen

Rated

5

Type

guided

Activity

Meditation

Suitable for

Everyone

Plays

48

***** Bedtime Prayer + Sleep Music ***** Love has a strange consequence: the moment someone becomes precious to us, we discover how much of their life lies beyond our control. This thoughtful bedtime prayer, followed by soothing sleep music, is created for those quiet moments when the people you love are on your mind — a partner, a child, a parent, a friend, someone far away, or someone going through a difficult time. Rather than promising that everything will always be fine, the prayer explores something deeper: the difference between loving someone and trying to control what happens to them. It invites us to transform worry into presence, gratitude, trust, and the small acts of care that are actually within our reach. Listen before sleep when your mind is holding the people your arms cannot reach. Because perhaps one of the deepest expressions of love is learning to say: I have cared. I have loved. I have done what I can. And now, for tonight, I trust.

Prayer Sleep Love Gratitude Trust Presence Comfort Remembrance Divine Gratitude Expression Divine Presence

Meet your Teacher

Klaipėda, Stadtgemeinde Klaipėda, Litauen

Meet your Teacher

Klaipėda, Stadtgemeinde Klaipėda, Litauen

Transcript

Before I sleep tonight. There is something I want to ask. Please protect the people I love. I realize how enormous that request is. I am asking for safe journeys, Good decisions, Kind strangers. Fortunate timing, And protection from a thousand things I cannot predict. Perhaps that is what love does to us. The moment another person becomes precious, The world suddenly contains something precious enough to lose. And so we worry. We remind them to drive carefully. We ask them to call when they arrive. We send messages that really mean something much larger than the words on the screen. Are you home? Did you get that? Everything okay? What we are really saying is. You matter to me. Please remain in this world with me. So tonight, God. Wherever the people I love may be. Stay close to them. Some are sleeping nearby. Some are hundreds or thousands of miles away. Be with all of them. Protect them on roads I cannot travel beside them. Protect them in rooms they cannot enter. And protect them from the quiet struggles they may be carrying without telling anyone. Put good people in their path. Let someone offer the right word at the right moment. I think of the people who once sat beside us and are no longer here. The ones whose voices we can still hear in memory. The ones we would give almost anything to call one more time. Their absence teaches us something we are very good at forgetting. Routine can make them seem permanent. But every person we love is a temporary miracle. So tomorrow. Help me remember this. Before life has to remind me. Let me look at the people I love with fresh eyes. Let me appreciate them before nostalgia has to do it for me. Let me say thank you while someone can still hear it. God, Whatever that word ultimately means, Whatever intelligence or love may exist beneath this astonishing universe. Please watch over them. Be near them tonight. And if they awake in the darkness. Let something inside them remember. Someone loves me. Someone is glad I exist. Someone hopes I wake tomorrow and have another chance to laugh. To begin again. And now. Help me sleep.