The Morning Habit That Changed My Prayer Life
Fifteen minutes, before the phone, before anything else.
For years my first thought of the day belonged to my phone. Notifications, email, whatever happened overnight. My prayer life was an afterthought, squeezed in whenever there was time left over — which, most days, there wasn't.
The shift was almost embarrassingly simple: phone stays in another room until after fifteen minutes of prayer. No app, no timer, no elaborate system. Just a chair, a Bible, and fifteen minutes before the world gets a vote in how my mind starts the day.
It didn't transform my life overnight. But six months in, I noticed something — I was less reactive, less anxious, more able to catch myself before spiraling. The first fifteen minutes had quietly become the most important ones.