Level 1: Novice

1. 🧘🏽‍♀️ Try “breath prayer” with some phrases from scripture: “Be still…and know that I am God,” or, “Speak, Lord…for your servant is listening.”
2. 🚶🏻‍♂️ Make a habit of taking morning prayer walks, talking to God about the day ahead before you do anything else.
3. 📓 Keep a prayer journal for the month, writing out your requests, and reviewing them at the end of the month.
4. 📖 Try out these short, daily prayers from the Book of Common Prayer.

Level 2: Apprentice

1. 🚿 Pick a mundane activity, like doing the dishes or taking a shower, and consider that to be a mini “prayer time” in your day.
2. 🫂 Each week this month, ask someone how you can pray for them, and commit to it!
3. 🙏 Pray through scripture through the practice of Lectio Divina.
4. 🌙 Make a nightly practice of praying “The Examen.”

Level 3: Master

1. 🤫 Try “silent prayer,” simply sitting in silence with God, for 10 minutes.
2. 🏘 Organize a prayer group, gathering together to practice one of these practices, or simply to pray for each other’s needs.
3. ✍🏾 Write your own “Psalm,” an honest prayer to God of thanksgiving, confession, adoration, lamentation, or all of the above!
4. 💭 Try “Imaginative prayer,” a way of meeting God in scripture through our imagination. Here’s a guided audio experience of the prayer.