Sunday-passionate

"You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, "Lord, I don't know how to pray!" you can be sure you have already begun."
- St. Josemaira Escriva

Praise the Good Lord for this! I love this. I signed onto ewtn.com to get today's reading and before I could even dive into those, I marveled in this quote from yesterday! I feel like so often, no matter how "good" I am doing, I experience this type of prayer - the prayer that consists of me just sitting there, explaining to God that I don't know where to start or what to say. It always seems to work out that if I sit there long enough, SOMETHING happens - whether it be me or Him. Best thing about Adoration is that you don't even need anything to say; that's why I think I love it so much.

Speaking of sitting there, not knowing where to start, I usually take Sunday evenings to re-group and re-focus on life. Very often when I kneel down for the first time on Sunday, I am faced with the "I don't know what to say, but I am present and wanting" mindset. Nonetheless, Sunday usually comes along with a new list of things to do for the week as well as the examination of conscience from the previous week. It is very often that I feel like I am starting all over again come Monday morning and I think I am beginning to wonder why one simple week is so often long enough to undo my Sunday evening convictions. Whether it be prayer or diet/exercise or keeping up with friends, I feel like the week days are so good at distracting me from the things I am Sunday-passionate about. My goal this week is to sit back next Sunday and say, "Thank you, Lord, for my focused and consistent week in which I knew how to pray..."

I can only imagine what I have just welcomed into my week by stating this. ha. I imagine the Good Lord will be called upon often this week. However, the prayer has already begun and I am interested in seeing what I can do to maintain Sunday-passion...