Prayer life and work

[mathematoons]

I want to have a strong prayer life, but I’m struggling. I have a full-time job as an actuary, but this was not so much of a problem when I started, as I prayed and read the Bible on the bus during my commute. But now, I’m spending hours each day studying for my next actuarial exam (which is in the middle of November), so during my breaks, and after I go home, my brain is just too fried to pray. I study on the bus, plus the time they give me to study on the job. It’s exhausting.

I’m pretty much left with Sunday, because I take every Sunday off from all work. But having a prayer life that only lasts one day a week stinks. I do my work for the glory of God, but I miss having the mental energy to pray during the week.

Anyone else have this problem? What do you do about it?

 

[EmeraldWings]

Prayer is not only in words but also in works, you make everything a prayer simply by doing it for God…meaning, not just with the thought of wanting to give it to God, but to do everything with the intention of pleasing and serving God, or in other words, to do whatever you do as well as you reasonably can, practice virtue in everything, and by that you make your whole day a prayer,
although you can still do small prayers throughout the day, as St. Philip Neri says -
*‘He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by short prayers.’ *
prayers like “Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I love Thee, save souls.”
“Blessed be God!”
“My God and my all.”
“My Jesus, Mercy!”
"My Lord, grant that I may love Thee, and that the reward of my love may be to love Thee ever more and more. "

and any other similar short prayers,

praying verbally or mentally is important, very important, but God does not expect you to do what is not possible, and He is just as pleased with your desire and intention to pray as much as if you actually did do those things as much as you wanted…so, just do what you can, pray when you can, at the very least make sure to say your morning prayers, even if it has to be while you’re getting ready for the day,

don’t worry yourself over it, you won’t be this busy forever, so just do what you can when you can, because it’s not that you are slacking from your prayers, it is simply that you are devoting more time to one type of prayers rather than another.
although you don’t want to get lax in your prayers either…meaning, you don’t want to get so use to not praying verbally or mentally that you neglect to pray when the chance does come along,
but in any case, i think the best thing you can do about this is simply to put it before God and ask Him to take care of it how He wishes, since whatever happens outside of your control which comes from God is always for your best, even if you don’t see or understand it now, be sure that God always has your best interest at heart, and all you have to worry about is seeking His will in all things…and if you ask Him to give you the time for more prayer, if it’s His will, you’ll get it.

alright, so i hope this helps. take care.

 

[GodInside]

Maybe you already do this, but i’ll mention it. Include God in your study. Things like, God help me understand this concept, what is a good way God to remember this. Pay attention to divine analogies. A computers cpu is the heart, or brain of the computer. What analogical simularities are there between how a cpu works, and what small parts we can understand about Gods mind. Lots of fun possibilities in all fields of study.

GodInside ~ Intel Inside Lol

 

[Paul_theApostle]

Tell God you would like have more time with him alone to pray

I am the opposite to you
I have no job or work and spend alot of time praying instead

some kind of balance would be good perhaps

Martha was the busy bee while Mary sat at Jesus feet

your desire to stop and sit with the Lord more often is very good

as the other guys posted though,during and throughout your day in spare moments you can think of God and offer small prayers and think about him during your day

i think the lord will send some cracks into your heart so prayer like living water will flow forth from it like water out of a rock

whatever your job involves also ,pray the Lord to accompany and help and bless your work and job and dont close your heart to God throughout the week except sunday and leave him out of your life and work

the Lord bless you ,and as someone posted,may your life be a prayer