Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022.

Start your day with a morning prayer. Morning Prayer is available from Church Candor. Free daily prayers to help center your day during 2022.

I realized I haven’t been “worshipping” in the way I feel I needed to…in a way that is present and vulnerable, in a way that reminds me I am there to give thanks and praise. I’ve been busy, diligent, managing technology mishaps and weather. I am not one bit upset by this and I wouldn’t change it - I actually debated writing this because I don’t dare come across as upset or complaining…instead, I write this to process my experience and emotions from this week. Perhaps others have similar experiences.

Prayer breathing is a spiritual discipline thought to be born out of Psalm 150, as best I can tell. The monks in the 5th century took the final verse of the final Psalm to heart and created a method of praying with each breath in and each breath out. Have you heard the saying, “there are no new original ideas any more?” Quilt patterns certainly fall into this category at times. I imagine prayer breathing falls into that same reality. So, for purposes of teaching the practice here, let’s set a foundation.