These prayers were born from my own longing to find peace of mind and inner freedom. I hope they can also offer you a space where you can pause for a moment, listen within, and be true to yourself.
Prayers from the North is a year-long prayer journey toward peace of mind and inner freedom. A new prayer is published on each of the 365 days of the year.
These prayers have grown out of my own lived experience. I find inspiration for them in everyday life. At the same time, the silence of Finnish nature, the changing seasons, and the natural rhythm of life they bring have helped me return again and again to what is essential.
As a paid subscriber, you will receive one new prayer for every day of the year—a total of 365 prayers. Each one invites you to become still, listen more deeply within, and let go of fears, judgmental thoughts, and disturbing patterns of mind that obscure your natural peace.
Within the year-long prayer journey, there are also shorter thematic prayer series, often lasting around 10 days. If you are interested in only one of these series, you can choose to subscribe just for the period when it is being published.
You can cancel your subscription at any time. This means you can also take the journey in periods shorter than a year, coming and going according to your own wishes and needs.
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What These Prayers Are – and Are Not
They are not meant to fix you.
Not to make you better.
And not to turn you into anything other than what you already are.
Instead, they offer small daily moments in which you can remember the eternal peace that always lives within you.
They offer you a guided moment in your morning or your day when your mind can soften.
Your emotional burden may become lighter, allowing the fundamental freedom and peace of your mind, and an honest connection with your authentic inner self, to quietly emerge.
Many of the prayers explore experiences familiar to all of us:
- fear, anger, conflict, and self-judgment
- guilt and shame
- exhaustion and lack of motivation
- challenges in relationships
- the need to control
- grief, loss, feelings of insecurity, and uncertainty
- a longing for peace
- a desire for greater inner freedom
These prayers do not dwell on analyzing these experiences.
They do not try to explain them away.
Instead, they invite you to loosen the grip of a harsh mind and make room for your own wiser, gentler, and more peaceful way of being.
Background
These prayers are the result of more than ten years of studying the principles of A Course in Miracles, applying them to my own everyday life, and finding tremendous help in them in freeing my own mind.
I come from a culturally Christian background, but I did not receive a religious upbringing in any way. This gave me the freedom to think for myself.
I left the Lutheran Church in my twenties because of human rights issues. I supported the human rights of women as well as gender and sexual minorities, and I did not feel that the Church was acting sufficiently in accordance with these values.
I still support the human rights of all people, but after a break of around twenty years, I rejoined the Evangelical Lutheran Church in 2025. My relationship with God has always been good, deep, and very personal.
The metaphysics and spiritual foundation of these prayers are strongly rooted in A Course in Miracles. They use Christian terminology familiar to people in Western cultures, mainly for the sake of clarity and understanding.
In these prayers, I use the gender-neutral term God, rather than words such as Lord, Father, or Mother Goddess. This is because the prayers are based on an understanding of God not as a form, but as Spirit—the originating Thought behind all things, or an eternal Energy of Love that cannot be precisely described in words or found in any single form.
All of the prayers are my own original texts. They reflect my own current understanding, my own experience, and the way I have learned to walk my spiritual path and find greater freedom and peace within my own mind.
I have personally read all of the prayers aloud.
How does it work?
A small selection of individual prayers is published for free on YouTube. On Substack, however, you’ll have access to the complete daily, year-long prayer journey, as well as the themed prayer series published throughout the year. The themed prayer series, for example, will never be made available for free on YouTube.
You can cancel your paid subscription at any time.
You can begin exactly where you are right now.
Your prayer journey begins exactly where you join, whether that is Prayer 3, 77, or 265. The journey does not start from the beginning when you subscribe, meaning that you do not begin with Prayer 1 unless you join on the first day of the year.
If you join on March 13, you will not receive Prayer 1 in your inbox. You will receive the prayer that corresponds to that point in the year. Your subscription begins right there, with the prayer that is current when you join.
Daily Ritual for Inner Peace
There is no single right way to pray, and you can adapt the words of these guided prayers in your own mind in whatever way feels right for you.
I hope this becomes a quiet and reassuring practice for you, as well as a practical tool for everyday life that helps you listen more deeply within.
I hope the prayers of Prayers from the North become a daily well-being ritual for you—a practice in which prayer is not something to perform, but a comforting way of remembering your own inner self.
On Substack you will find one prayer.
Every day.
And you will move forward one step at a time.
You are warmly welcome to join.
– Prayers from the North
Jenni Arbelius 🕊️
Finland
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