So many people lead lives with packed schedules. Being constantly on the go and alway having lots to do can make it challenging to make time for the things you actually want to do rather than those you must do out of necessity. Juggling a demanding career and other responsibilities can mean that you’re constantly on the go. If you’re religious, and keen to devote more time to your worship, it can feel frustrating when you have very little time to do this. You may feel divided between trying to honour your responsibilities while being loyal to your faith. Finding ways to integrate your faith into your busy life can provide the perfect solution. Here are some practical ideas to incorporate your religion into your life more easily, even when you’re busy.
Use Prayer Aids as a Ritual
Introducing prayer aids, such as rosary beads, into your day is an excellent way to remind yourself to pray more frequently. Reciting the rosary acts as a powerful tool to incorporate prayer into your everyday life. Choosing rosaries from the Vatican to keep with you at all times serves as a convenient way to keep a reminder of your faith constantly with you. You may also find it helpful to keep extra rosary beads around the house to prompt you to recite the rosary more often. This will help to make opportunities for prayer more obvious throughout the day, ready for whenever you have a spare pocket of time in your busy schedule.
Make Worship a Part of Your Schedule
Your schedule may be dominated by appointments and meetings, but how about managing your worship in the same way as your workload? Making worship a part of your schedule and introducing it as a regular part of your routine is an excellent way to make it a habit that you simply don’t break. Blocking out time in your schedule to devote to your religious practice can be a really effective way to ensure you get more time to integrate faith into your daily life.
Whether you set a recurring appointment in your calendar to keep Sundays free for attending church, or you block out an evening each week for a religious activity, such as joining a prayer meeting or bible group, there are many religious activities that you can incorporate into your regular schedule.
Ensuring that you block out time for worship into your calendar each week is important to demonstrate that you’re not available during these times. This will prevent you from being disturbed by colleagues, ensuring that this time is kept as sacred and free from distractions.
Always Keep Your Bible With You
Having your bible with you at all times is an excellent way to feel connected with your faith, no matter where you are or what you are doing. When your bible is with you it’s possible to find opportunities throughout the day to study it and re-read your favorite passages
Think of those pockets of time throughout your everyday life when you might reach for your phone to scroll through it mindlessly. Instead, this time could be well spent reading through the bible and connecting you more deeply with your faith, rather than doomscrolling.
As well as offering you more opportunities to read and study the bible throughout the day, having your bible with you can also provide you with guidance. When you work in a high-powered role and feel the weight of responsibility weighing on your heavily, the bible can be a great source of guidance and comfort to help you through these times.
Live by Your Beliefs
Integrating your faith into your daily life can be challenging when you’re busy, but one way to ensure you stay true to your values is to live your life according to them and in line with your faith. Making a conscious effort to do good and help others, are further ways to integrate your faith much more fully into your life. When you live by the values that you believe in, it can help you to feel far more connected to your faith.
Your schedule may be completely packed, but it doesn’t take much extra time to treat people as you would like to be treated, to show them respect, and kindness. Considering your everyday actions and how you can strive each day to live by values is a simple but highly effective opportunity to feel like you’re living your life in a meaningful way and making a positive impact on the lives of others.
Make Yourself Accountable
When your working day has been super stressful, you are feeling exhausted, and just want to spend the whole evening on the couch, watching television, finding the motivation and energy to devote time to your faith can be incredibly hard. In these situations, it’s really helpful to have an accountability partner.
Making yourself accountable is a great way to stay committed to practising your faith. When you have someone else in your life who shares your faith and is also looking for some extra motivation, partnering up and keeping each other accountable is an excellent idea. It’s so much easier to make time for prayer and faith-related activities when you have someone else to help motivate and hold you accountable to doing it.
If you’re still struggling to find as much time as you would like to devote to your faith, it can be helpful to focus on doing one thing each day that aligns with your beliefs. This could be acting as a good samaritan and helping someone out, or it could be reciting the rosary. You can then be satisfied that each day, you’re taking positive steps to embody your faith and live in a way that enriches you.
As you can see, having a busy career doesn’t mean you need to neglect your faith. Instead, you need to work out a system; then it’s possible to integrate your faith into your busy life with some clever planning.
