No Time to Pray

Day to day life is busy.  We have to work, oversee our social network presence, maintain friendships, manage families, watch Yellowstone, eat and sleep-just to name a few.  So God must understand if we can't find time for prayer, right?

Newsflash-He doesn't.

There are 24 hours in a day; the same 24 hours that our forbearers were able to find enough time to forge relationships with God and become Saints.  If they can do it we can find time to spend with God as well.

So when can we pray?

• When we wake up, before we get out of bed, before we check our phone, we can say a quick morning prayer thanking Jesus for a night's sleep and asking for his guidance for the day.
• Most of us drive alone somewhere on a daily basis.  Why not use that time to pray?  Download a audio rosary and put that on the radio.  Dedicating your drive to a decade or two of the rosary and Mary can help make you arrive safely at your destination.
• Why have we gotten away from thanking God for our meals?  It seems so easy to spend 30 seconds to acknowledge God's role in providing us the food we need to survive.
• When going to sleep we should take a minute reflecting on the day.  We can look at what went well, what went poorly and how we can make tomorrow better.  We should thank god for his role in our day and ask him for a refreshing night of sleep.

If we look for free time and utilize those to spend time with God, I think we would all be surprised how much time we can spend in prayer.  And we might still have time to watch Yellowstone as well.