I have set myself a pretty strict prayer life that consist of going into the Church next door (literally) every three hours. starting at six am until and including midnight, for from thirty minutes to two hours.  During this time I do the Liturgy of the Hours, personal prayers and spiritual contemplation.

For the most part, since I have started this, I have been able to keep to the schedule I set myself and pray often.  There have been hard times though.  By hard times I mean it has been hard to go pray at each Hour (of the Liturgy of Hours) and it has been hard to do my personal prayers.  After my nine PM prayers, I go to bed, and get back up at midnight to start the prayer day anew.  This getting back up has been very hard at times.  Now, I do go back to bed after I finish my midnight prayers, but many times it has been hard to get up to begin with!

The past few weeks have been one of those tough times of prayer.  These last couple of days, with the heavy snow, have actually helped me refocus on my prayer life and have brought me back to my Hours and prayers!

And when I follow this schedule I feel better.  Both spiritually and physically, so I don’t understand at times why it is hard to keep to my prayer life…

In Christ