Rejoice and Give Thanks

St. Paul tells us to pray without ceasing. When I look at my week, if I go to Mass and receive the Eucharist, there's a completeness there. I can make it through the week. When I do not, like today (due to having too much Birthday last night and sleeping through it) I feel an emptiness. So for the rest of this week I will not feel complete. I'll most likely slack in prayer, most likely out of shame for being stupid at getting wasted and missing Mass. So back to praying without ceasing: With this new book it gives me petitions that the universal church prays and then I'm able to add my own petitions. There are always the general ones I pray for every day, such as the intentions of my sisters in Regina Angelorum and the ones that are random. Some dear to my heart and always for the requests of others. It's impossible to remember all what I was asked to pray for so they get lumped into a standard "for all those intentions I was asked to pray for..." If I am able to start my day off praying I seem to think about prayer throughout the day. Adding in standard prayers and just thoughts of things I want to talk to God about. The best thing sometimes about praying without ceasing is to thank God for things throughout the day. Especially when it's constant mental prayer. Inside your head, you are all giddy. Like a kid on Christmas. Well, I'm just going to end this random post because it's starting to not make sense. :)