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WEEK 11 (Option 2) - Day 5
Training ground for prayer without ceasing

Introduction
We often experience tasks which must be repeated again and again as monotonous, "the gray everyday".  The feeling of inner emptiness becomes even stronger when the "gray periods" define our life over a longer period of time.  This emptiness can be used in a positive way for our spiritual life in three ways:

Exercice
- I Thess. 5:17 (" Pray constantly " in connection with a preparatory meditation)

Look at the day before you and the routine tasks which could give your thoughts free  space:

In the evening look back on the day with a concluding meditation  (or during the day   look back over the previous hours with a "prayer of loving attentiveness"):
Attention:
Do not dwell on what has not been achieved, note it  and ask yourself  what the reason for that might be.  It is important, however, that you look  again at what was helpful, be it ever so small, so that you can linger with it  awhile and deepen it.  Thus it will become "yeast" which will gradually leaven the rest.

Variation
- Luke 19:1-8 (to pray and not lose heart.)

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