Prayer is conversation. Stop always asking God for what we want and start listening for what he wants.
- Start asking God for advice, direction, inspiration, and guidance.
- When we stop asking for things and favors, we begin to open ourselves to his wisdom.
Start giving yourself to prayer. Let God do what He wants to do with you during that time of prayer.
- It means letting go of expectations and agendas.
- It means detachment from the feelings that prayer provokes within us.
- What makes it difficult is that so much of our lives are focused on doing and accomplishing.
- This shift requires us to let go and focus on being.
Through prayer, our spiritual awareness is fine tuned. Just keep showing up.
- It’s not about what we are doing when we come to prayer, it’s about what God is doing to us, through us, and with us when we show up to prayer.
- Make yourself available. Strip away everything in your heart that makes you less available to God.
The joy you experience is proportional to how much we make ourselves available to God.
Resource: Reallocate
to apportion or distribute (something) in a new or different way
Transform everything into prayer.
- Prayer is not an activity that encompasses a small portion of our days. It’s a way of life.
- Prayer awakens our senses and we become aware of God by our side throughout the day.
- Not that he is in our presence, but that we are continually in His presence.
Every activity can be transformed into prayer by offering it to God.
- “Pray constantly” was St. Paul’s invitation.
- Learning to transform daily activities into prayer can be a very powerful spiritual lesson.
- Offer the task you are least looking forward to today to God as a prayer to the person you know who is suffering the most, and do that task with great love, better than you have ever done it before.
- Offer each task, one at a time, to God as a prayer for a specific intention, and do so with great love.
craving and resource from “33 days of EUCHARISTIC Glory” by Matthew Kelly