You don’t need a reason to be tired anymore. It’s just there—woven into your bones, pressing behind your eyes, curling up in the quiet spaces of your soul.

Maybe it’s not one big thing. Maybe it’s a thousand little things that have built up like dust in a corner.

You’ve carried it all for so long, trying to be strong, trying to stay hopeful, trying not to let it show. But the truth is… you’re tired.

And I want you to know: God sees that.

He sees the late nights where your thoughts won’t slow down. He sees the effort it takes just to show up.

He sees the way you still smile when you’re breaking inside.

And He’s not standing at a distance, waiting for you to have more faith or pull yourself together. He’s drawing closer—because you’re weary.

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28 NIV).

That’s not just a verse. It’s an invitation.

Not to work harder. Not to fake your way through it.

But to collapse into the arms of Someone who won’t ask you to pretend.

Sometimes rest doesn’t look like a nap. Sometimes it looks like not having to hold everything together for one more minute.

It looks like being honest with God, even if all you can manage is, “I can’t do this right now.”

It looks like letting go of the guilt for feeling tired in the first place.

You don’t have to earn rest. You don’t have to explain your exhaustion. God is not disappointed in you for being human.

He made you. He knows what this world costs. And He’s not here to pile more weight on you—He’s here to carry you through it.

So if today all you can do is breathe and whisper His name, that’s enough.

If you need to cry, cry.

If you need to step back, step back.

The Shepherd of your soul is not in a rush.

You’re not lazy. You’re not weak.

You’re just tired.

And that’s okay.

Let Him meet you there.

You’re not alone.

—Rick