Stability

 What is stable in our prayer life is not our interior state.  One day it is fine and the next we feel a mess, chaos, darkness, futility.  No, what is sable is our commitment.  So many of us give up a prayer practice because the insides seem uncontrollable and so fluid in ups and downs.  But what is up, is often simply feelings.  They come and go, but God does not come and go.  God shows up and is always present but under different aspects.  We don’t control God but we can control our commitment to pray.  That is our stability.  And that commitment requires some discipline in our daily life.  Don’t leave a daily commitment to chance or whim.  If it is not central, it will fall away because the results are so fluid.  I don’t wait until I want to pray.  That would be a disaster.