You know how you're a bad Christian if your mind wanders off while you are reading the Bible or praying?
I have had an epiphany: This rule must be a construct of our time-poor, outcome-driven society, and I refuse to be guilty any longer!!!
I realised this because I'm now sometimes dipping into the Bible at breakfast and lunch. I normally don't do this because my "quiet time" is mostly done reading out loud, to aid my concentration and comprehension, which you can't do with food in your mouth. What I'm liking about the meal-time dip is that I read a bit, and then my mind wanders, and I don't instantly rouse on myself and try and pull it back to finish the passage. I think it's good to think about random things that reading the bible has stirred up in your mind. It's not a waste of time to follow some trail of pondering on a relationship or life issue or some biblical or doctrinal tangent you don't understand or an imaginary conversation or a memory.
Be liberated from attention-span guilt! The yoke is easy!
A helpful tip someone told me was to pray for the random things that do pop up in your mind as it wanders. Just follow your stream of thoughts & pay - you never know what it might lead you to pray for!
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