Woke up inspired today. I have this feeling to pray and read the Word like nothing before. It’s like I’m on fire to reconnect with the Lord this morning.

Good Morning, Lord. I am here again today. But I feel an energy like never before and I wanted to start pouring it first in praise and love for you. I know I have been absent for a little while – my prayers seemingly get shorter and shorter each day until they became merely a rushed word or two before I fell asleep or a mumbled phrase of thanks while I scarfed down my meals in a hurried rush. Even my moments of prayer in mass seemed hurried and distracted as I stumbled through my daily list of tasks as I sit through my Sunday day of worship. I see now, by letting those other distractions into my life, it is easy to come up with excuses not to pray or not to focus on your Word.

Dear Jesus, you chastised the hypocrites of your times as they stumbled through life under the mantle of goodness but yet failed to do the works that would exemplify their true devotion to you and your teachings. Forgive me for putting you on “hold” when in fact, every day should begin -and- end with you. Help me to build a stronger relationship with you and through you may I learn compassion, charity, patience and love. Help me to let go of the material things and their pursuit so that I may bring myself back… centered on God and readily listening for His will for me. I ask this in Jesus’s holy name. Amen.