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Color the ordinary black-and-white activities of your daily life with prayer.
While washing your hands or taking a drink: “Thank you, dear Father, for clean water.”
While getting dressed: “Clothe me in your righteousness, O Christ.”
While talking with a friend or stranger, silently pray: “Lord, bless and keep them.”
And, in all circumstances, one of these:
-"Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner" (=the Jesus Prayer)
-“Lord have mercy” (=the Kyrie or Kyrie Eleison)
-“Jesus, help me.”
As a general rule, shorter prayers prayed more often are to be preferred over longer prayers prayed less often.
Punctuating your walking, talking, working, and other plain activities with brief prayers is a discipline worthy of fostering and encouraging.
This is one way we strive to do what Paul urges in 1 Thessalonians 5:17, "Pray without ceasing."
DISCUSSION:
-What are your favorite short prayers?
-What are other ways you try to cultivate a disciplined life of prayer?
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