The first episode deals with Boredom and short attention span and an easy fix around it.
Excerpts from prep my notes
In thinking of topics to do I remembered a statement from a book I have somewhere in my library talking about how people can spend “Hours reading books on prayer, yet spend little time actually doing it”. And I realized a lot of times that could be true of myself, and various people where people’s prayer time can be really affected by various issues especially short attention spans, and maybe feeling boredom.
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The Practice of the Presence of God is a book of collected teachings of Brother Lawrence (born Nicolas Herman), a 17th-century Carmelite friar, compiled by Father Joseph de Beaufort. The compilation includes letters, as well as records of his conversations kept by Brother Lawrence's interlocutors. The basic theme of the book is the development of an awareness of the presence of God.
Excerpts from prep my notes
In thinking of topics to do I remembered a statement from a book I have somewhere in my library talking about how people can spend “Hours reading books on prayer, yet spend little time actually doing it”. And I realized a lot of times that could be true of myself, and various people where people’s prayer time can be really affected by various issues especially short attention spans, and maybe feeling boredom.
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The Practice of the Presence of God is a book of collected teachings of Brother Lawrence (born Nicolas Herman), a 17th-century Carmelite friar, compiled by Father Joseph de Beaufort. The compilation includes letters, as well as records of his conversations kept by Brother Lawrence's interlocutors. The basic theme of the book is the development of an awareness of the presence of God.
