become stronger in my faith

First, I need to commit to a regular amount of time in prayer per day and at a regular time, and with a structure. So far, I have been reading the Bible and praying at night, but not giving God the firstfruits of my day in terms of time in the morning, and I tend to wake up at different times every day. If left to my own devices, I will stay up until 4 am and sleep til 10:30. At least that is not even 8 hours per day, and I can get a lot done at night since there are fewer distractions, although getting up later limits my window of time to transact with the 8-5 business world. But I guess it can be done. It takes different strokes to move the world.

I have been reading this book on “Let Prayer Change YOur Life” and the author created this structured prayer notebook, but that is another thing to add to my life, and I need to simplify. Maybe I can modify the idea and do something like it on my desktop.

I wandered away from regular practice in my faith in high school, came back for a while during my marriage, completely deserted it during my divorce, and was indifferent afterwards. Thanks to my girlfriend I have been attending Mass regularly every Sunday for almost four months and have enjoyed it immensely. My parish is very close-knit, I recognize faces week to week, and every day I try to be a living example of the gospels in my work and in the way I help others.