What's your favorite time for meditative prayer?

[TheApologist]

When do you feel closest to God in meditation? What’s your favorite place, time, instance for meditating?

For me it’s my personal time…so in the bathroom while washing up in any fashion. It’s actually a very nice time to just be with God and sing to Him(yes I’m one of those bathroom singers).

 

[Margita]

Time - well, I admit I am not too regular here… but the early morning or late afternoon are especially suitable.
Place - anywhere QUIET!!! It’s just hard to find quiet in Toronto. But if I can go to my church or close the windows very tight and sit on my favourite low stool, it is okay.

How I long to go home and revisit my quiet spots…

 

[water]

When do you feel closest to God in meditation? What’s your favorite place, time, instance for meditating?

The best time is at night and when it is quiet or at the church’s chapel. However, many times, I find walking workplace to church and praying is great too.

For me it’s my personal time…so in the bathroom while washing up in any fashion. It’s actually a very nice time to just be with God and sing to Him(yes I’m one of those bathroom singers).

I could freely sing opera in the bathroom. well, that is the only place I can be all silly.

 

[TheApologist]

I could freely sing opera in the bathroom. well, that is the only place I can be all silly.

I KNOW! I feel so much more…I don’t know free in there.

 

[water]

Sometime, I prayed at night and the next morning, as soon as I opened my eyes, half sleep half awake, I found myself continuing praying the rosary, eg: a third mystery of the rosary …as if I just picked it up what I had not finished from last night.

I KNOW! I feel so much more…I don’t know free in there.

Here is a thread just opened by someone else:
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=154544

 

[LilyM]

I just tend to take a good 15 minutes or so between waking up in the morning and getting out of bed, and/or after getting into bed at night, before I fall asleep, and usually just meditate on an appropriate phrase or two of scripture or my spiritual reading. Really recharges the batteries.

Sometimes if I’m feeling tired or ‘blah’ during the day I’ll take five minutes and do the same.

 

[Andruschak]

When do you feel closest to God in meditation? What’s your favorite place, time, instance for meditating?
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At home. I get home from work about midnight, and fall asleep about 2 AM. In between I wind down and I guess the last 15 minutes I am in bed, contemplating my icon of Christ Holy Silence

 

[puzzleannie]

when I wake up in the middle of the night I know I am being called to contemplative prayer. I pray the office of readings, then turn out the light and sit quietly. generally after an hour or so I am ready for sleep again. I have learned through long experience that a migraine is also a call to prayer, can’t really be called meditation since no mental process is possible at the height of the pain, but I do give myself over entirely to God during these periods. I have a period of contemplation every morning after lectio divina with the daily gospel, sometimes meditation happens, sometimes it doesn’t.