Letters to God?

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I think I must have a mental disease or something because Im like a different person at morning that at night. In the morning I cant get motivated to read the Bible, to do work, or to even think of God. Only at night (when I go to sleep) my head clears and I can think. I still havent seen a priest and im having trouble praying I cant focus on God enough to felt heard. Writing helps me focus and I was wondering if this is an acceptable way to pray? Can I write letters to God and then just I dont know? When I write I focus on what im writing and I was just thinking maybe this might help? Or would this be drawing too close a connection to physical objects (pencil paper) and God, thus being false idoltary?

Im confused
 
Maybe your life is stressed and that is why you only find peace in your mind during the night? Maybe it is related to some daily issues and has nothing to do with your dedication to our Lord?
I do not think there is anything wrong with writing letters to God, it can be a different kind of prayer and meditation. I often offer others something called the God box. You pick or make a nice box, write your worries or problems down on a paper, fold it, and place it in the box. After you let God deal with everything that are on the paper 🙂

God bless, I pray for you
 
Personally I don’t see anything wrong in writing God when you have a hard time staying focussed during prayer.
If this helps you to focus on God then it can only be good.
I know it has helped me in the past, just like you said it helps to focus on what you’re writing, without having other thoughts creep into your mind.

And maybe you’re just more of a night person rather then a morning person. I think a lot of people have problems getting started with anything in the mornings.
 
The more you know someone the more you will think of them and the more you will love them. Thus the daily Rosary while meditating on the mysteries of the Life of Christ will build your relationship with God.

Speaking to God through writing is a very beautiful thing. It reminds me of the writings of St. Augustine. Here is a sample of some of his writings:

*Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise; your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning. And so we men, who are a due part of your creation, long to praise you – we also carry our mortality about with us, carry the evidence of our sin and with it the proof that you thwart the proud. You arouse us so that praising you may bring us joy, because you have made us and drawn us to yourself, and our heart is unquiet until it rests in you.

Grant me to know and understand, Lord, which comes first. To call upon you or to praise you? To know you or to call upon you? Must we know you before we can call upon you? Anyone who invokes what is still unknown may be making a mistake. Or should you be invoked first, so that we may then come to know you? But how can people call upon someone in whom they do not yet believe? And how can they believe without a preacher?

But scripture tells us that those who seek the Lord will praise him, for as they seek they find him, and on finding him they will praise him. Let me seek you then, Lord, even while I am calling upon you, and call upon you even as I believe in you; for to us you have indeed been preached. My faith calls upon you, Lord, this faith which is your gift to me, which you have breathed into me through the humanity of your Son and the ministry of your preacher.

How shall I call upon my God, my God and my Lord, when by the very act of calling upon him I would be calling him into myself? Is there any place within me into which my God might come? How should the God who made heaven and earth come into me? Is there any room in me for you, Lord, my God? Even heaven and earth, which you have made and in which you have made me – can even they contain you? Since nothing that exists would exist without you, does it follow that whatever exists does in some way contain you?

But if this is so, how can I, who am one of these existing things, ask you to come into me, when I would not exist at all unless you were already in me? Not yet am I in hell, after all but even if I were, you would be there too; for if I descend into the underworld, you are there. No, my God, I would not exist, I would not be at all, if you were not in me. Or should I say, rather, that I should not exist if I were not in you, from whom are all things, through whom are all things, in whom are all things? Yes, Lord, that is the truth, that is indeed the truth. To what place can I invite you, then, since I am in you? Or where could you come from, in order to come into me? To what place outside heaven and earth could I travel, so that my God could come to me there, the God who said, I fill heaven and earth?

Who will grant it to me to find peace in you? Who will grant me this grace, that you should come into my heart and inebriate it, enabling me to forget the evils that beset me and embrace you, my only good? What are you to me? Have mercy on me, so that I may tell. What indeed am I to you, that you should command me to love you, and grow angry with me if I do not, and threaten me with enormous woes? Is not the failure to love you woe enough in itself?

Alas for me! Through your own merciful dealings with me, O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can hear it. My heart is listening, Lord; open the ears of my heart and say to my soul, I am your salvation. Let me run towards this voice and seize hold of you. Do not hide your face from me: let me die so that I may see it, for not to see it would be death to me indeed.

Excerpted from the Confessions of St. Augustine (Book I, Chapter 1)*

But prayer is a dialogue which can continue throughout the day no matter what you are doing. I would recommend you sit back and listen to this brief talk about how to pray by Bishop Sheen. LISTEN TO AUDIO NOW 👍
 
If writing helps you focus, it’s wonderful for you. In fact, many people use a prayer journal for just this purpose. Why not pick up a lovely, leather bound blank book and use it to write to God? You can keep track of questions you might have for when you speak with the priest, or even a few coded notes for your next confession.
 
May God’s Peace, Love, Mercy, Graces & Blessings be with you and to all!

Our Good Lord Jesus loves you so much. He knows what’s in our hearts even before we utter them. St. Teresa once said that “Prayer is a loving conversation with God”. She and most of the saints struggled with praying because their minds wandered most of the time. So do not feel discouraged, you are not alone.

What is important is NOT giving up in communicating lovingly, NOT giving up in that relationship with Our Good God. God, in His infinite Wisdom will continue to draw you closer to Him by different means, by different ways. If you are unable to say or think of a prayer to Our Good God because of distractions or because of a heavy burden that you are carrying at that moment in time, then just lift up your mind to God and just be with Him in the silence of your heart and He will be very pleased. You can also drop by at any Catholic Church at any time for most of them are open throughout the day and just spend some quiet time with Him, adore Him in the Most Blessed Sacrament, keep Him company even for a moment.

You can also read a line or two of Sacred Scripture daily, pondering on the awesome Word of God and allowing Him to talk to you in the silence of your heart.

You can also buy a Rosary and/or Chaplet of Divine Mercy CD and listen to it while driving or at home.

The moment you wake up in the morning just tell Our Good Lord Jesus that you love Him, ask pardon for all our sins and then offer everything to Our Good Lord Jesus through Our Blessed Mother Mary in union with His Suffering on the Cross in behalf of us all. When you do this, it makes everything that you do, however small or insignificant it may seem such as every beat of your heart, every breath that you take, every step you make, to be an act of prayer & adoration of Our dear Good God. It is transformed from being finite in value to INFINITE in value for it is united to the Suffering of Our Dear Good Lord Jesus, Who is God.

Take care & God bless to you and all!

Praying for you and for all!
 
you pray as you can
what you suggest have proven valuable to many people and are in no way wrong, unless you confuse your own ideas and thoughts with messages from God. Drawing and art in generally can be very powerful ways of journaling, meditating, reflecting, and expressing what is in your heart.
 
At the moment I find praying in the mornig rather difficult also. So usually when I wake I just tell Jesus that I love him and ask him to help me during the day.
In the evenings I find it much easier to pray. But, like you I often ‘write prayers.’ Quite often at lunchtime I will write a prayer to God, I find it really helps me to clear my mind, to focus and to get in touch with God. I think it’s an ok thing to do, it is at times, my way of maintaining my relationship with God. In a way I am glad to hear that I am not the only one who does this!!! 😃

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