Yes, I am technically writing this on Saturday and backdating it to Friday. Yes, I stink at doing Lent. Oh well.<\/p>\n
As I am trying to figure out what to write about each day, I thought I would talk about some of the prayer resources I use in the event that people need something. <\/p>\n
Also… I am an Amazon affiliate, so there will be Amazon affiliate links in this post.<\/strong><\/p>\n So… here is what I like.<\/p>\n [+] Pray As You Go<\/a>:<\/strong> This is what I mainly use right now. They give you some beautiful sacred music and a guided reflection based on Scripture. You can listen on the website, download it onto your computer, or get each day’s devotion on iTunes. I’m mostly listening on my laptop at 7 a.m. while I wait for my oatmeal to cool, but I’ve also listened in the car and it was my go-to when I lived in Montana and had an hour-long commute to and from work.<\/p>\n [+] Sacred Space<\/a>:<\/strong> My best friend Rebecca<\/a> introduced me to them 21 years ago. It’s guided reflections and they also have a prayerbook<\/a> you can buy and keep on your e-reader. <\/p>\n [+] Devotional pamphlets:<\/strong> I used to use Our Daily Bread<\/a> for 20 years, and I stopped using it in 2016 for reasons… which was also when I stopped praying as much. My church distributes Forward Day by Day<\/a>, which is what we use on the occasions I actually make it to Mary’s Guild on Wednesday mornings. I based the Lenten devotional books<\/a> around the format of these two. (If you want to download a copy of it, go here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n [+] The Jesus Prayer:<\/strong> This is how I get through painful medical procedures. It’s simply “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” I also do this a lot while I’m doing things like stripping the sheets off of my bed, cooking something that takes a long time, and on the drive home from Trader Joe’s<\/a> in Bellingham. (That last one started when Daniel was being difficult on one trip up there, and I found that it calmed me so much that I made it a habit.) I find that things come into my mind to pray about when I do it.<\/p>\n [+] Extemporaneous prayer:<\/strong> Anyone who has ever spent time with me in a work environment has seen me randomly cross myself. It’s usually when I find out about someone who really needs prayer… so I pray for them. \ud83d\ude42 It is also what I am doing as part of my kneeling prayers during Lent.<\/p>\n [+] Daily Devotions from the Book of Common Prayer:<\/a><\/strong> Again, anyone who has spent time with me at the college<\/a> has seen me do this. I used to do it a lot while sitting in the hallway waiting for my Accounting class to start during my first year there. I had one person freak out because they thought I was in a trance and when I whispered “praying”, they got super apologetic. \ud83d\ude42 Almost all of my classmates knew I prayed for them, and a number of my students know as well… and it’s actually been something really positive because it has started some interesting conversation and many of them have prayed for me during health crises. I have the BCP app on my phone, so I just use that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, I am technically writing this on Saturday and backdating it to Friday. Yes, I stink at doing Lent. Oh well. As I am trying to figure out what to write about each day, I thought I would talk about … Continue reading