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Nov 5
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Ep. 297 | Too busy to pray? Start here

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Do you feel you just don't have time to pray? In this episode of Little by Little, Fr Columba asks us to get honest about where our time really goes, then offers a surprising consolation from the story of the widow's two coins. God doesn't count in minutes, he counts in how much of ourselves we give, so ten minutes offered wholeheartedly before the kids wake up is no small thing. Drawing on Brother Lawrence's The Practice of the Presence of God, he shows how brief moments of worship, asking for grace and offering our hearts can slowly turn the whole day into prayer. If you've been despising the little time you have, this is an invitation to stop, give it to him with joy, and simply give him your heart.


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