Essentially Samantha

 Since coming off all social media except for a monthly update on Facebook and YouTube, I have downloaded the morning and evening and night time prayer app from the Church Of England. Not only has regular prayer in this way reduced intrusive thoughts, but it has made the ability to hear from God much clearer. Gods voice is unique to each of us and the way in which He speaks can differ from person to person. Without the noise of a thousand voices from social media clogging up my spiritual arteries God's still small voice has been much more profound. I dont ever want to go back to social media now I have found a way to listen to God and to hear back from Him as a result.  The noise in my head has also gone, those horrible intrusive and fearful thoughts have paled into insignificance. I always was a woman of prayer but now I have tasted true prayer and what walking with God is truly like. The noise of social media gives you a hundred or so voices all clamouring for your attention...

 Now, now we cant let all the Roman Catholics have all the contemplative fun now can we? This book by Clay Roundtree is set to revolutionise your prayer life. Highly recommended and practical in its application, it makes prayer and the rosary both enjoyable and motivational. Daily prayer based on psalms and songs of the bible and beads to help contemplative flow are encouraged and worth pursuing in this book. I cannot recommend it enough. Using song and canticles from the Church Of England Common Worship, this easy to follow book guides you joyfully through praying with beads. You wont be disappointed! I myself pray this way and take my beads out with me to remind me God is at my right hand. They not only ground me but encourage me to pray as I go.  Prayer is so important and this small book that can easily be worked through with a rosary on a daily basis in just a short time. It will set you off in the contemplative path with encouragement and hope.