A Better Way to Pray

I like to pray a rosary every day but my schedule is so very hectic with 4 kids, homeschool, work, travel and homekeeping (which more often than not gets skipped in favor of preparing healthy meals instead of "fast" food) that, sometimes, I never get to finish my rosary.

I have fallen into taking St. Teresa of Avila's advice of "saying one Our Father" extremely well, which is better than saying a whole string of them poorly. Since I never know which prayer of the rosary will end up being my last, I pray each prayer like it is with my last breath, with very great attention. Once, I was tearing up before the end of just the Creed! I continue in the same way with the rest of the prayers. I may get interrupted or run out of time (I continue in increments throughout the day) but I know what was offered up already was gold and not straw. - Better a little gold than alot of straw, right?

Many times I even finish! Wow! I have to do it this way because there is only so much time available to set aside for prayer and there's already liturgy of the hours, dedicated meditation time and Mass. Try it!