A while back I started doing something new during group prayer times.  I kind of did it out of necessity at the time, but I have continued doing it and I really like it.

When I'm in a setting where we are praying together in a group out loud, I can find myself being distracted.  My mind sometimes wanders and I realize I have missed several sentences of someone's prayer.  No matter how hard I concentrate this seems to happen more often than I'm happy to admit. 

I AM praying with the folks around me, and I want to participate fully in that time.  I want to be less distracted, more connected, more prayerful (is that a word?). 

So, I started 'taking notes' during the prayers. 

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