Listing Prayer

Many Christians look forward to those times during the day when they can find a time of silence for sacred reading, morning and evening prayer, and some form of contemplative practice, perhaps Centering Prayer. It may require that they rise earlier in the morning than others or go to bed a little later than some. To turn their intentions into action they also find it helpful to mark in advance their daily calendar for such times. Along with making a list of daily things to be done (don't forget to get eggs!), not a few find it helpful to write the word Prayer at the beginning and end of each day’s listing. All such habits help us keep time sacred, enter the Presence of God, listen to Our Lord, and respond to the Holy Spirit through the whole day--all twenty-four hours.

By the way, I found this observation earlier in the day while reading The Orthodox Way by Bishop Kallistos Ware:

It is common to regard contemplation as a rare and exalted gift, and so no doubt it is in its plenitude. Yet the seeds of a contemplative attitude exist in all of us. From this hour and moment I can start to walk through the world, conscious that it is God's world, that he is near me in everything that I see and touch, in everyone whom I encounter. However spasmodically and incompletely I do this I have already set foot upon the contemplative path.