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I have tried to get rid of the non-helpful method of criticizing myself to spark improvement. This method not only doesn't work, it sends me into fits of depression.
I have been studying, and working on improving my prayers, but Dan's comment helped me realize that I had fallen into the old pattern. I was looking for what I did "wrong" somehow thinking that would help me to improve. It didn't. In fact, it was starting to make me dread praying!
I realized that day that it would be better if I noticed every good thing about my prayers. Everything that worked. Everything I did remember. I could hold on to those things, and maybe, slowly, the things that I forget would be remembered, and the inspiration I want would come. In fact, a day after this realization, I went to say my morning prayer, and was prompted to changed something I usually say to something similar that felt more grateful, and worshipful, and to ask for something more useful. This gave me hope for the improvement that I had been hoping for.
Looking for what I was doing wrong, instead of improving what I was doing right, was NOT a way to improve my prayers!
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