Lately I no longer feel like praying or go to church anymore

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Pray that God may continue to enlighten you and lead you and inspire you. God is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). He will help you when you need it.

I’ve been struggling with self-pitty and feeling guilty for no reason recently, so please pray for me also 🙂
 
When you don’t feel like praying or attending Liturgy is when you need it the most.

sometimes get very down (won’t go into the reasons here) and when I speak to my pastor he always stresses that when I feel like that, it becomes even more important for me to attend Liturgy. I know how hard it can be. Sometimes for me, I don’t even participate, but I’m there. For prayer, I just keep it simple. Acknowledge the presence of God, ask him to be with me and to help me through my struggles, and thank Him. Prayer does not always have to be something wordy and flowery.
 
I would say there are many things we simply do in life even though we are not motivated. I am not always motivated to go to work but I go anyway. I am rarely if ever motivated to clean the house but I do it anyway. And sometimes we gain motivation by means of behavior. In other words, you don’t always need to have your heart in what you are doing; on the contrary, by just doing it (as the Nike commercials say), you can over time make it a habit which you eventually even like doing.
 
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