​A rule of life is simply the divine pattern of activities that God has revealed to you that he wants you to use to uniquely shape, sustain, and refresh you. It helps us to wrap our heads around the intentional work of becoming like Jesus.

The purpose of this prayer practice is to help us become more God-centered throughout our daily lives. The Examen invites us to process our lives each day with God and before God by carving out a few moments of solitude in the midst of every day and reflect on what is going on and where our actions and choices are taking us (toward or away from God). 

Many of us know that prayer is an important part of our spiritual life, yet we often ask the question:

"How do we enter into prayer and make it a conversation between us and our creator?"

The Lord's Prayer can lead us to a vibrant conversation with God as each phrase or line of the Lord's Prayer is an invitation from Jesus to think and pray into something.

The Book of Common Prayer was a resource put together 500 years ago in the Church of England. They took what was established prayer in the monastic communities and made that available to everyone so that people could learn to pray in their homes and with their families.

Not all people use the Book of Common Prayer in the same way. It provides structure to our prayer lives but it also can be used freeform. Work with the resources in the Book of Common Prayer to figure out the best way to use it in your life.