End of the Day
Watch this video at the end of the day.
It walks you through a Prayer of Examen.
It's like our "Highlights and Lowlights"
we do in our Sunday AM Faith Formation.
It's a great ritual to look back at the day.
And it's simple enough to do every day.
It walks you through a Prayer of Examen.
It's like our "Highlights and Lowlights"
we do in our Sunday AM Faith Formation.
It's a great ritual to look back at the day.
And it's simple enough to do every day.
Power of Gratitude
On a daily basis, find something you are appreciative of or find something you are grateful for. Start a journal. You might even want to call it your appreciation journal or gratitude journal and go to it [and write] five minutes a day.
Studies have traced a range of impressive benefits to the simple act of writing down the things for which we’re grateful—benefits including better sleep, fewer symptoms of illness, and more happiness. Keeping a gratitude journal—or perhaps the entire experience of gratitude—is really about forcing ourselves to pay attention to the good things in life we’d otherwise take for granted. |
Evening Prayers
An Evening Prayer is a Christian prayer of thankful reflection of trust and peace over tomorrow
MAY [GOD] SUPPORT US all the day long, till the shadows lengthen and the evening comes and the busy world is hushed and the fever of life is over and our work is done-- then in his mercy-- may he give us a safe lodging and a holy rest and peace at the last. Amen. Attributed to Cardinal John Henry Newman, Prayer in All Things HERE WE WATCH our brother's sleep; watch with us, but do not weep; watch with us through dead of night-- but expect the morning light. Attributed to William Drennan, The Celtic Way of Prayer IT IS NIGHT after a long day. What has been done has been done; what has not been done has not been done; let it be. Evening prayer from Sing the Journey CHRIST with me sleeping, Christ with me waking, Christ with me watching, every day and night, every day and night. Celtic prayer from Carmina Gadelica |
My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip—he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
Psalm 121:2-4 |