Everyday life is the only setting most of us have to grow into a life of prayer. While getting ready for our daily activities we can also pray about the day and on how God wants to use us. In this way God can prepare us both physically and spiritually. As we put on our cloths for the day it can remind us that we are clothed in spiritual readiness. We can pray underneath and during our activities, and not just apart from them. God’s presence should be meditated through our daily work, and not destroyed by it. Since Christ was a carpenter most of His life; surely He sanctified those decades of labor with loving attention to God.
“I keep myself in His presence,” Wrote Bother Lawrence, “by simple attentiveness and loving gaze upon God…or to put it more clearly, a habitual, silent and secret conversation of the soul with God. “
For most of us making more room for the spiritual life is not a matter of changing our daily lives but of reorienting our hearts. Growing in prayer is simply a matter of cultivating the garden plate we already have.
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