Hey.. thank you so much for this... I hope it is okay to ask a question, please ignore if not. I am worried I pray too much... I asked God that He might fill the gaps in my day rather than distraction, that I would be able to pray ceaselessly, and I have suddenly got this huge hunger for prayer. I try very much to do it discretely - snatch a moment when my son is settled, when my hubby is busy, when I have done all my work / duties.. but I feel like I have been very spoilt because miraculously I get to disappear to my room and pray the hours, or my rosary, or the psalms often throughout my day. Thing is, my day feels all wrong if I don't get to do this - God always provides, He always gives me a moment where I can hide away, do a few prostrations and get on my knees without hopefully imposing on others. But I hear this voice in my head now `what are you doing that for? you are praying way too much... this is obsessive... there is no point in this... bla bla bla'. I ignore the voice and keep praying. I am so grateful I get to have all these moments in my day where I can pray rather than scroll on my phone or do some task that really isn't all that important. I see a friend and I have to go to my room and pray beforehand. Lach has a meltdown and I'm praying the Jesus prayer in my mind as I try and help him through it, so I can figure out what to do. Once I've helped him be safe and regulate I go to my room to pray for him and recenter with a psalm. I feel stressed or irritated and I run to my room to catch 5 minutes with Him so I can be better for John. Miraculously I found myself giving up alcohol a while ago - so I am no longer too sleepy to pray before I go to bed, and I wouldn't change it for the world. I don't watch the news too much because I'm so oversensitive it upsets me heaps, but I see enough to pray a rosary for whatever has caught my eye, troubled my heart all the same. I feel like the most important job I could ever do in my life is pray, because everything else flows from that. But I am worried it is too much - I am over the top. At the same time I would not change it for anything. I guess that is my question... am I praying too much? I do apologise if not appropriate to ask - please remove from the comments section if so. Thanks all the same, and for this post that you have shared. ALys
From everything you’re describing I believe you are NOT praying too much! Ignore ignore ignore the lies of the enemy. ‘Pray without ceasing’ (1 Thess 15:16). (Early Christians took that command very seriously and really tried to pray all the time…. Until they themselves became prayer….)
Thank you, Mother Cassiana. This post sat in my inbox for a couple of days. I just read it tonight, and it served to the immediate answer to a prayer I had offered just half an hour prior to reading it. God bless you!
Hey.. thank you so much for this... I hope it is okay to ask a question, please ignore if not. I am worried I pray too much... I asked God that He might fill the gaps in my day rather than distraction, that I would be able to pray ceaselessly, and I have suddenly got this huge hunger for prayer. I try very much to do it discretely - snatch a moment when my son is settled, when my hubby is busy, when I have done all my work / duties.. but I feel like I have been very spoilt because miraculously I get to disappear to my room and pray the hours, or my rosary, or the psalms often throughout my day. Thing is, my day feels all wrong if I don't get to do this - God always provides, He always gives me a moment where I can hide away, do a few prostrations and get on my knees without hopefully imposing on others. But I hear this voice in my head now `what are you doing that for? you are praying way too much... this is obsessive... there is no point in this... bla bla bla'. I ignore the voice and keep praying. I am so grateful I get to have all these moments in my day where I can pray rather than scroll on my phone or do some task that really isn't all that important. I see a friend and I have to go to my room and pray beforehand. Lach has a meltdown and I'm praying the Jesus prayer in my mind as I try and help him through it, so I can figure out what to do. Once I've helped him be safe and regulate I go to my room to pray for him and recenter with a psalm. I feel stressed or irritated and I run to my room to catch 5 minutes with Him so I can be better for John. Miraculously I found myself giving up alcohol a while ago - so I am no longer too sleepy to pray before I go to bed, and I wouldn't change it for the world. I don't watch the news too much because I'm so oversensitive it upsets me heaps, but I see enough to pray a rosary for whatever has caught my eye, troubled my heart all the same. I feel like the most important job I could ever do in my life is pray, because everything else flows from that. But I am worried it is too much - I am over the top. At the same time I would not change it for anything. I guess that is my question... am I praying too much? I do apologise if not appropriate to ask - please remove from the comments section if so. Thanks all the same, and for this post that you have shared. ALys
From everything you’re describing I believe you are NOT praying too much! Ignore ignore ignore the lies of the enemy. ‘Pray without ceasing’ (1 Thess 15:16). (Early Christians took that command very seriously and really tried to pray all the time…. Until they themselves became prayer….)
Thank you, Mother Cassiana. This post sat in my inbox for a couple of days. I just read it tonight, and it served to the immediate answer to a prayer I had offered just half an hour prior to reading it. God bless you!
Glory to God! Thank you, Ruth