Katie's prayer: Marcy Priest's "My Drink"

You are my love.

I've heard it said many times that your faith life isn't just your religion, it is a relationship with God. And to maintain that relationship, you need to keep in constant contact. I mean you wouldn't be very good friends with someone you only hear from occasionally. The same is true with God. That's why I try hard to keep constant contact with God. From more structured prayer like liturgy of the hous, mass, and so on to more free prayer like this blog, my prayer walks, my conversation with God right before bed, adoration, etc. As much as I love the structured prayer, I think I love the more free prayer better because it allows me to express my exact feelings. For me, it's this type of prayer that makes it feel more like a relationship. But when life gets busy and things in my schedule have to be moved around or even deleted, I find it's always the more free prayer that gets pushed aside. I can't tell you the last time I went to adoration that wasn't XLT. I can't tell you the last time I went on a prayer walk. And lately, I haven't even wanted to do my conversation with God before bed. I find myself saying 'I just did night prayer, that should be ok. Besides I'm really tired, I'd really rather be asleep.' I'm really lucky God isn't like us stupid humans. Otherwise we'd totally no longer be friends.

I think it's time to start making more of an effort on that relationship. But as I'm sitting here thinking that, I'm also thinking but not this week. It's just too busy. God understands my schedule, He's ok with it. But that's not how it should be! I'm going to try! Really, I am! Cause if I really am in love with God, then I need to start acting like it.