To meet our tendencies to devote our morning and evening attention to what is on our screens, we can follow the church’s tradition of engaging in morning and evening prayer to help us come to know our Creator God better—heeding the same rhythms of creation and rest. As poet and essayist Kathleen Norris described, Each day God spoke more and more into being, and then, it seems, let it all sit until the next day. . . . Lauds (or morning prayer) reminds us of our need to renew, to remember and recommit to this process of creation in our inmost selves. . . . The evening [prayers] are a
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