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Take It to Him

You own a Bible, you have been told to pray about it, and at three in the morning the same eleven sentences still go round because nobody ever gave you somewhere to put them.

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What’s inside

  • Fifty-two weeks, each the same five steps in the same order so you never have to work out how to start: name it, weigh it, take it, say it, leave it.
  • Weigh it: a written inventory that sorts what you actually know from what you are assuming and what nobody on earth can know yet. At three in the morning those three feel identical; on paper they do not.
  • Take it, say it, leave it: the week's passage copied out by hand from the Bible already on your shelf, any translation, then a prayer in your own words with a line to start you off, then a signed and dated line with five small boxes for the days you take it straight back.
  • The return: a page at the end of every thirteen weeks to write what actually happened to the worries you named, and a Worry Index at the back that collects all fifty-two with what became of each one.
  • Also inside: a topical finder, forty-eight things you might be carrying with scripture references for each, for the nights that do not wait, plus space for the verses you keep coming back to, the prayers that were answered, and the people you are carrying.

Who this is for

You own a Bible, and you have been told to pray about it. What you have never been given is somewhere to put the worry, so every night the same sentences go round: the diagnosis, the adult child, the marriage, the decision you cannot unmake. This is that place, one specific worry a week in about twenty minutes, with the passage copied out by hand because reading it takes four seconds, copying it takes four minutes, and those four minutes are most of the point.

Nothing to keep up with and nothing to fall behind on: miss three weeks and you start on the next page, not the one you skipped. The Worry Index at the back is why this is a book to keep rather than to finish.

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