Overwhelmed and Done? A Soul Reset for the Worst Days
You know the right answers, but your heart hasn’t caught up. Learn how listening to the Bible can reset a heavy day and refresh your soul.
LIVING DEVOTED
Debra Miner
11/9/20262 min read
Overwhelmed and Done?
A Soul Reset for the Worst Days
11/9/2026
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Before noon, I had to take two short walks, tried to hide in the bathroom, locked myself in my room for 15 minutes, and said out loud, “I’m done with this day.”
The kids were struggling with school and overwhelmed. We were all feeling the pressure. Their overwhelm and pressure increased my personal emotional roller coaster. It’s hard coming into a day already beat up, and then it keeps getting worse.
Recently, a pastor friend told us about his young boy who often became irritable when he had to use the bathroom. The little one hadn’t picked up on the cues of his body, and the increasing discomfort ramped up the emotional pressure. After relieving himself, he was happy.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could drain all the negative emotions into a sort of toilet and push flush?
I find myself expecting my kids to get over things quickly. Yet in my own stewpot, I simmer helplessly, the product of an emotional spiral.
I want everything to be happy and cozy. Yet the angst and tension of heaviness push against my contentment.
I know the right answers in my head. But my experience and soul have already avalanched into a pile of rocky hurt and insecurity with snowy pain and frustration.
Every good Sunday school answer is Jesus, right? Of course, but how do we get there?
Remember a time when the Scripture came alive significantly to you for that moment? Or you walk in a place and the room felt peaceful? Listening to the Bible can be like that.
I’ve found the most helpful tool to be audio Scripture. Some people use audio Bibles or the play button in their app. I prefer music or ambient background, so I choose YouTube videos with a compilation of Scripture that runs for hours. Whether an arrow of a verse that pierces my heart or the overall background of peace, the power of Scripture changes my soul.
Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word (Ephesians 5:25a-26 BSB).
(Sanctify means "to make holy.")
That last word of the verse is the Greek word, “rhema," which is “the Lord speaking His dynamic, living word in a believer to inbirth faith” (HELPS Word-studies, Bible Hub).
Isn’t that incredible? The Bible. An ancient book. Alive in the heart of a living God. For His kingdom and my good!
He loves you that much! He will lead you to the right place for His Word to feed your soul through an arrow or in the background.
I still wish we could flush negativity into an emotional toilet. But on those days or seasons when you’re just done with life, there is One who is faithful, who really sees you, and reaches out to comfort your heart.
Living Devoted,