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How are we doing?
What are we doing?
If anyone wishes to share the struggles or fruits of prayer this week, please, let us do so together in the comments box.
Closing week one...
Philippians 1:6: For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
4 comments:
Me first.
This has been a very hard week to set aside prayer time, honestly. I have been super busy at work, and a family friend died on Halloween...so the funeral was Monday. Add on to that a rough workshop/retreat weekend that left me exhausted and a little disturbed. When I'm sad and angry and tired, I don't want to listen to God--I want to rant. But this has helped, and I had a very good discussion with a friend who is a priest on Thursday that has helped me remember to trust in God and stop trying to manage it all myself (that's boiling it down, anyway!).
Maybe the best prayer experience this week was walking home from the funeral, actually...a 50 minute walk...by the time I got home and lay down to take a nap from crying and walking tiredness, I was ready to listen.
I'm sorry for your loss.
These daily fifteen minutes have been good for me. For the first few days I mainly followed your prompts and followed where they led me. Saturday I went to Mass. Today I said a rosary (and, of course I went to Sunday Mass, but we are talking about "extra"). It's been good.
Ironically, it's easier for me to find time for prayer when I'm working than when I'm at home. With a preschooler, a toddler, a large puppy, and a wife who is preoccupied with getting her photography business off the ground (in addition to the two days a week she puts in at her regular job), home life tends to be more hectic than work life--although work life has its hectic times, to be sure.
So I did well this week when I used break times at work to pray but didn't do as well at home. "At home" also included a weekend family trip which further derailed me. Even when I managed to pray at home or on the road, I tended to be pretty distracted and unfocused. I love spending time with the family, but ... I believe a break now and then is a vital necessity. In the same vein, I think it's not a bad idea for the parents of young children to occasionally get a baby sitter and attend mass as a focused adults.
Even as I type this, I'd like to go back and spruce it up but I've got a little girl crawling on me and another one in the next room I need to check on....
Rufus, I'm with you on this entirely. Ironic (heh) but true--working for money is less harried than working at home. Prayer is easier at work. But so necessary at home too....
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