I release worry and control
Today I choose trust over control.
I acknowledge that I have been trying to carry what was never meant to rest on my shoulders alone.
Even when my path feels unclear, I remember my lived truth:
I have always been carried.
I have never been abandoned.
I have never been without divine support—seen or unseen.
As I soften instead of brace, my body remembers calm.
My spirit remembers confidence.
My breath becomes a prayer without words.
I release the need to manage outcomes,
to prepare for worst-case scenarios,
to take ownership of worries that were never mine to hold.
I remind myself: worry is taking ownership of a problem I may never own.
Today, I return that ownership to God.
I trust that divine work is already unfolding behind the scenes—
without my interference, without my exhaustion, without my fear.
I move more gently today.
I release stress, worry, and control.
I allow faith to hold me exactly where I am.
Love and light to all… and so it is.
— Rev. Angela July, Still I Rise Ministries