Reprinted from my old blog.<\/i><\/p>\n
The first thing to do in pursuing the interior life might also be the easiest, and that is simply to respond<\/em>. If you find yourself thinking about God, for any reason, that\u2019s a sign that God\u2019s calling you to attend to Him. So do that.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not suggesting that every time you think about God, you drop everything and rush off to some private place to pray. St. Paul tells us to pray constantly (1 Thess 5:17), but one has to eat and work and so forth. If we are to pray constantly, then, we need to be able to pray while doing these other things.<\/p>\n So if you happen to think about God, pray something simple. It can be something as simple as \u201cThank you for being with me.\u201d It can be something more formal, like the Jesus prayer:<\/p>\n Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Whatever you want to say is fine. The point is that you\u2019re responding to God\u2019s call\u2026.and over time, you\u2019re building up the habit of responding to God\u2019s call wherever you are and whatever you are doing. You\u2019re also learning to recognize His presence in your day-to-day activities. It\u2019s all good.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reprinted from my old blog. The first thing to do in pursuing the interior life might also be the easiest, and that is simply to respond. If you find yourself thinking about God, for any reason, that\u2019s a sign that God\u2019s calling you to attend to Him. So do that. I\u2019m not suggesting that every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10,21,22,33],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bootstrapping-the-interior-life","tag-catholic","tag-christianity","tag-holiness","tag-interior-life"],"yoast_head":"\n