Prayer Practice to Try

Cultivating an unending awareness of God’s presence:

“There is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level, we may be thinking, discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting all the demands of external affairs. But deep within, behind the scenes, at a profounder level, we may also be in prayer and adoration, song and worship and a gentle receptiveness to divine breathings.

The secular world of today values and cultivates only the first level, assured that there is where the real business of
humanity is done... But we know that the deep level of prayer is the most important. It is at this deep level that the real business of life is determined.”

Take a moment to think ahead to the tasks you have planned this week. Invite God to join you in each of them, and consider how you can be reminded of God’s presence during the day.

How can you begin to order your mind on more than one level so you don’t miss the real business of life?

(Taken from A Testament of Devotion by Thomas R. Kelly)