Need strength badly

I'm so incredibly drained right now. If you have been reading my posts, I'm concerned about the health of my stepdaughter. I haven't slept in three nights, I'm exhausted beyond belief, and to top it all off, I have a report due tomorrow for work and I don't have one clue how to do it. Of course, everyone who can help is not around.

I'm so exhausted. I feel as though I can't even be supportive of my partner and his worry because I'm so overwhelmed and exhausted. I just want to crawl into a hole and hide away from everyone. I don't know what to do. This report won't go away. The illness is still there. I don't know.

I really need the Lords help.

L

Have you had your thyroid checked?

It has nothing to do with thyroid. It has everything to do with being extremely worried over my stepdaughter.

You did mention illness, worry is not an illness it is your emotions.

Worry over a sick friend, loved one, or family member, is both usual and appropriate. If the worry has reached the stage that yours has (and you need to remember that it can do that whether or not the problem "justifies" the worry - I have, from time to time, worried myself literally sick about something which, with the wisdom of hindsight, did not justify it) it can take over your life. In such cases the report you mention, which might not have been such a big thing without the worry, seems like a colossal cliff to climb.

I am not going to say to you "pull yourself together" or even "trust in The Lord". My own experience gives evidence that you can, but because we are all human, it is very hard to do when worry and pain has completely overtaken you..

i am am going to mention Matthew 11:28-30:

28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Notice that The Lord does not offer to take away the burden. He offers his yoke. A yoke is a device that makes carrying a burden lighter. Find his yoke and you will find your life improves.

For me, quite recently, as I fought my way through another bout of anxiety, the answer was to pray every time I was conscious of worry, Lord, help me with this. Then I found some time to pray for other people I saw around me, whose problems were at least as bad as mine. It has only been looking back that I realised I had become calmer and better able to cope day by day.

Lord, I pray for Newme (and myself), that your strength might grow in us, and that we will become more able to deal with the problems this world throws at us, Amen.

lord give peace to this lady and give wisdom to what the next steps needs to be done

Father, give this person strength in Jesus Name. Don't let this person be worried and anxious, but in complete joy in you. In Jesus Name. Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. - Matthew 4:17