The Practice of the Week Week 3
The Daily Examen
Ten minutes at day’s end to walk back through it with God.
One simple thing. Keep it small, keep it doable, and do it with them first.
Use the six steps at the end of each day (or over lunch, reviewing your morning). Keep them on a card by your bed. It can be as short as ten minutes — the form matters less than the repetition.
If ten minutes is too much, do thirty seconds: one thank-you and one honest word about your day.
BE STILL — one breath; ‘Lord, have mercy.’
GIVE THANKS — three specific gifts from today.
REFLECT — how am I really? Where did I feel drawn?
PRAY — talk to God about one or two of them.
HOPE — look at tomorrow; hand it over.
SURRENDER — open your hands: ‘I give myself to you.’
May you stop running from your own day long enough to find God already in it.