Aug 08 2008
Howgozit?
Howgozit? An aviation expression for a progress check: how goes it?
Howgozit with my attempt at fixed hour prayers? Not so good. Morning is easy for me since I have a long-standing habit of rising early to spend time being attentive to God. Noon is just hard. I’m trying to find a repeatable alarm that will sound to remind me…otherwise I tend to work straight through lunch–sadly, another long-standing habit. Perhaps it is not that I need to find an alarm, but that I need to learn to stop for lunch, both to spend a few minutes being attentive to God and to come up for air in a busy day!
Evenings are also hard. I don’t know why this is so. God is often on my mind, sometimes to the point of distraction. But, stopping for a formal few minutes of prayer is again hard. I’m beginning to pay attention to why it is hard.
 Meanwhile, the Jesus prayer, “Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me,” runs through my mind frequently through the day and when I find myself lying awake at night.
And, it’s lunchtime right now. So, I’m off to read the mid-day prayers…