Too busy to Pray?
If you're like me you're too busy not to pray... And you crave an intimacy with God that will help you connect with your place in the world to love and serve God and those around you.
That means finding ways to incorporate regular prayer into our increasingly busy lives. For me, that means getting the Prayer Book where I'm most likely to use it - on my smartphone.
Here are three suggestions.
The first is the one I use - it's a free app on my smartphone - available at the iPhone Apple store and in the Android Google Play store - just search for Mission of St. Clare. When you download it to your smartphone the icon will look like the one in the photo above.
This will give you an app that conveniently organizes Morning and Evening prayer - when you click on it it will automatically take you to the prayer time that is appropriate for that date and time. It's awesome and I can't recommend it enough.
If you want to do the same on your computer - to pull up the offices on your desktop PC or laptop - simply go to St. Clare's website:
www.missionstclare.com
I know lots of people who do it this way and their prayer lives have been deeply enriched.
And, of course, if you want to do it the old-fashioned way, use The Book of Common Prayer and look up these offices, bring along a Bible, and follow along as best you can. There's a shorter version on page 136. If you're new to the Prayer Book you'll likely find this option much more clumsy and even frustrating as the bevy of options can interfere with the experience.
Sure new technology is scary - and we're often quick to dismiss learning something new - but in using technology this way I have found it much easier to connect with God and nurturing to my faith. Let me know what you think.
