Well prayer life is a friendship with Jesus…so if you spoke like that with a person you wanted to be friends with…how would you expect the friendship to progress? Oh you know what I wanted to say…and leave it at that. Hmmm
You get out what you put in is all I am trying to say. The distractions are temptations, simple as that. You are meant to fight them. Facebook/games etc. Set aside 15 mins a day without your phone or computer to talk to your friend Jesus. Switch the phone and computer off. Go somewhere quiet alone… just like Jesus did in the bible. If you cant manage 15mins, then 10 or 5, start somewhere. You dont have to talk all that time, just sit and be with Jesus. Make the sign of the cross and just say what comes into your heart, if your mind wanders then bring it back, 100 times if it happens. You dont have to be silent or focus, if it’s easier, say some hail Marys or Our Fathers then say thank you to Jesus for listening and maybe ask him be with you in your day or tell him about your day. He loves to hear it, even though he knows. Ask him for the grace of perseverance in prayer and then go on your way. Keep doing it each day and it will get easier. Ask him to help you. Eventually it will get so easy you start to ask him what you should have for dinner and chat to him all the time, when you are waiting for the bus and thank him for the sunshine and for all things in life as he is such a part of life. He will help you if you ask him. God bless you.
