Links/Resources mentioned in this episode:
My new alarm clock
My kitchen phone charger
The Fulfillment of All Desire by Ralph Martin
The Apostolate of Holy Motherhood (Note to perfectionists like me: Amy warns us to read this one with caution!)
Amy was also kind enough to send along what she calls a “generic day” at her house:
At the end, you asked about other resources or ideas. Not sure if it’s helpful but what we do is – punctuate the day with prayer, anchoring prayer to other activities until a habit is formed. I try to structure the time and vary the content. Here is what a generic day looks like:
- Wake – morning prayer (morning offering, some Bible or meditative reading or copying scripture in a notebook) – 5 to 30 minutes
- 7:30am – Meal Prayer
- 8:30am – Start school – morning offering with the kids, spontaneous prayer with kids – we each ask for help with a virtue that we need, saint of the day and ask for their intercession, we memorize some Scripture to help us at tough moments during the day (right now, Psalm 27)
- During the day – pray for patience and gentleness, as needed
- 11:30 – Meal Prayer and Angelus
- Quiet time – I read (something from one of my book groups), pray, or listen to a podcast
- 3pm – Divine Mercy Chaplet to end school day
- 4pm – we go to Daily Mass and often 4pm or 5pm
- I like to pray in the car to reset any issues of the day. We also pray the “Eternal rest prayer” when we pass a cemetery.
- Meal prayer
- Sometimes a family rosary
- Evening prayer with the children
- Evening prayer with Mike
- Reading (current bedside meditative reading – Fulfillment of All Desire (Martin), Imitation of Christ (Kempis), An Edith Stein book, Mere Christianity (Lewis), and my fav – The Diary of St. Faustina
- I read little sections and pray about it.
As you could guess, plans do not always happen as outlined. The stuff that sticks are the things attached to an already formed habit. St. Teresa of Calcutta reminds of our call to faithfulness, not success.
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As someone who’s trying to have a deeper prayer life, I really enjoyed this episode! I loved the part about silence being scary but we can fill the silence with prayer. Sidenote: I, too, am a total “goldstar junkie.” 🙂
Hi, Lindsay! I love seeing your name pop up in the comments. 🙂 The silence part is so hard, and I think it will likely be something I battle most of my life. Bringing my planner to my prayer time helps me to quiet my mind. I try to spend my first five minutes when I sit down to just writing down everything in my head before I get started. That way, I’m better able to focus on my prayer when I enter into that time. Ah, another gold star junkie! I sympathize, friend. Becoming a stay-at-home mom was a real gut punch to my pride, and I suppose that’s why God called me here!