Aug 16, 2026 · 41 min · 11 segments
Have you ever tried to pray, only to find your mind wandering to your to-do list, an old argument, or everything else happening in your day? In today's episode, Angela Mason explores what it means to…
Jordan MelloHostHave you ever started praying only to have your mind immediately wander? Maybe it drifts to an old argument and you replay that perfect line that you wish you had said.
But before you actually get through all of your kids, all of a sudden you're reaching for your phone and you're adding milk, eggs to the grocery list.
Okay, so if it happens to you, I just want to tell you, don't feel bad because there is a physiological reason for this.
Ah, this is the perfect time for sorting through those unresolved tasks, those lingering worries.
And it gets even trickier depending on the season that we're in because when life is in a crisis, when a spouse is in chemotherapy, or a child is struggling, oh, your attention, it locks in.
But on a random, uneventful Tuesday when the laundry's piling up, oh, it's hard to pray about the mundane, isn't it? We start to wonder, is it even necessary? When life is quiet, we don't feel the need to ask for help.
So? How do we find the holy right in the middle of an ordinary day? Well, we stop waiting for a crisis and we learn to turn the ordinary into prayer.
When you can't finish a single sentence without thinking about the grocery list or an old argument, this verse, it can feel less like an invitation and more like a heavy burden or a setup for a failure.
Or we live with this quiet, nagging guilt every single day that we're just doing Christianity wrong.
I guess continual prayer is for monks or for the people who have that spiritual gift of prayer.
Have you ever started praying only to have your mind immediately wander? Maybe it drifts to an old argument and you replay that perfect line that you wish you had said.
But before you actually get through all of your kids, all of a sudden you're reaching for your phone and you're adding milk, eggs to the grocery list.
Okay, so if it happens to you, I just want to tell you, don't feel bad because there is a physiological reason for this.
Ah, this is the perfect time for sorting through those unresolved tasks, those lingering worries.
And it gets even trickier depending on the season that we're in because when life is in a crisis, when a spouse is in chemotherapy, or a child is struggling, oh, your attention, it locks in.
But on a random, uneventful Tuesday when the laundry's piling up, oh, it's hard to pray about the mundane, isn't it? We start to wonder, is it even necessary? When life is quiet, we don't feel the need to ask for help.
So? How do we find the holy right in the middle of an ordinary day? Well, we stop waiting for a crisis and we learn to turn the ordinary into prayer.
When you can't finish a single sentence without thinking about the grocery list or an old argument, this verse, it can feel less like an invitation and more like a heavy burden or a setup for a failure.
Or we live with this quiet, nagging guilt every single day that we're just doing Christianity wrong.
I guess continual prayer is for monks or for the people who have that spiritual gift of prayer.
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