Day Thirteen - Hour by Hour

As Christians we are called to transform every activity in our lives into a prayer.  This is how we become the best version of ourselves and live holy lives.

Christianity is incredibly practical.  It is a beautifully human invitation to experience the divine.  For a Christian, everything is a prayer.

Everything I do can be changed into prayer.  Even my sleep can be offered as a prayer.  Every hour of every day can be offered as a prayer for someone or something.

It changes the way we live.  It changes the way we work.  Doing so will transform my life.

A lot of the various aspects of our Christian spirituality are just designed to wake me up, because sometimes I really can be sleepwalking through my life.

As I grow in this awareness, it changes the way I live.  It also changes the way I love.  Imagine being loved by someone who’s that aware.

What is an ordinary activity that I can transform into prayer?  For me, my daily work, my morning routine and all the time I spend driving could be transformed into prayer.  I can also transform my eating into a prayer.

Focus:

Every activity can be transformed into a prayer.

Act:

Offer each hour or activity of my day to God as a prayer for a specific intention.  Take a deep breath and lift the coming hour up to God.  Ten seconds at the beginning of each hour will change my life.

Pray:

Lord, help me to transform my life into prayer.  Inspire me to bring meaning into everything I do so that my presence in the world may elevate and transform ordinary, everyday things.

Amen.